Intelligence Squared debate: US prosecutors have too much power
In this courtroom sketch, Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty is depicted pointing to defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, right, during closing arguments in Tsarnaev's federal death penalty trial Monday, April 6, 2015, in Boston. Tsarnaev is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line in April 2013, killing three and injuring 260 people.
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Does the US criminal justice system secure equal justice for all? The latest debate motion from the Intelligence Squared series is: US prosecutors have too much power. YES: Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler of Georgetown Law and former federal judge Nancy Gertner of Harvard Law. NO: former federal prosecutor David Hoffman of Sidley Austin and former federal prosecutor Reid Schar of Jenner and Block.
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