MODERN PROSECUTION
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A Vision for the Modern Prosecutor
In the wake of unprecedented and overdue attention on the criminal legal system and its role in our Nation’s legacy of racial injustice, we believe that it is possible to describe and call for an emerging vision for the role of a modern prosecutor. In this paper members of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution’s Executive Session on the Role of the Prosecutor describe this contrast between traditional practice and a vision of the future by comparing their conceptions of justice, modes of operation, culture, accountability, and metrics.
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Prosecutorial Culture Change: A Primer
Ethan Lowens, Student, Harvard Law School
Rena Paul, Co-Founder, Alcalaw LLP
Johnathan Terry, Former Policy Advisor, IIP
Prosecutorial Culture Change: A Primer provides recommendations designed to encourage prosecutors to think critically about the history of their institutions and foster in-depth conversations about current policy and ways to bring about sustainable change.
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Prosecution that Earns Community Trust
Dan Satterberg, Prosecuting Attorney, King County, WA
Ronald Wright, Needham Yancey Gulley Professor of Criminal Law, Wake Forest University
Prosecution That Earns Community Trust offers a playbook for newly-elected and veteran prosecutors alike to strengthen dialogue and trust with their communities, develop metrics that "look beyond conviction rates," and co-produce community-centered standards of public safety and well-being.
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Prosecutors, Democracy, and Justice
Jeremy Travis, Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures
Carter Stewart, Executive Vice President For Programs, Mellon Foundation
Allison Goldberg, Fmr. Policy Advisor, IIP
Prosecutors, Democracy, and Justice offers guidance for prosecutors to orient their strategies and a framework for communities to hold them to account.
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Prosecution and Public Defense
Roy L. Austin, Jr., Vice President for Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, Meta
Kirk Bloodsworth, Interim Executive Director, Witness to Innocence
Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, Miami Dade, FL
Allison Goldberg, Fmr. Policy Advisor, IIP
Prosecution and Public Defense outlines why the right to counsel is central to prosecutors' mission, and ten concrete actions prosecutors can take to ensure this constitutional right. Read the Executive Summary here.
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Prosecutors and Frequent Utilizers
John J. Choi, County Attorney, Ramsey County, MN
Bob Gualtieri, Sheriff, Pinellas County, FL
Jeremy Travis, Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures
Allison Goldberg, Fmr. Policy Advisor, IIP
Prosecutors and Frequent Utilizers outlines a new paradigm about how prosecutors can better serve the needs of people who frequently interact with the criminal justice and other social systems. .
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The Future of Prosecution
A panel on the future of prosecution featured at the Innovations Conference hosted by the Center for American Progress, John Jay College, and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
Chesa Boudin, Fmr. District Attorney, San Francisco, CA
Paul Butler, Law Professor, Georgetown Law School
Sarah George, State’s Attorney, Chittenden County, VT
Stephanie Morales, Commonwealth’s Attorney, Portsmouth, VA
Lucy Lang, Fmr. Director, IIP
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The LGBTQ+ Community and The Legal System
A panel discussion on the LGBTQ+ community and the legal system and the movement for change.
Katie Doran, Advisor to the Manhattan District Attorney for LGBTQ Issues
Arcelia Hurtado, Director of Policy and Training, Prosecutor Alliance of California
Vanity Reid-Deterville, Advocate
Johnathan Terry, Fmr. Policy Advisor, IIP
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Wrongful Convictions Panel Series
This 3-part panel series focused on wrongful convictions. The presentations provided unique perspectives in the field of exonerations. We will heard from attorneys who do this crucial work, both as prosecutors and defense attorneys. And we also heard from people who are often overlooked during and after an exoneration - the victims or their relatives.
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Foster Care, Youth Justice & the Criminal Legal System
This panel focused on the foster care to prison pipeline and how prosecutors can better educate themselves.
Victoria Davis, Founder, Sisters of Justice
Susan Mangold, Chief Executive Officer, Juvenile Law Center
Carol Siemon, Prosecuting Attorney, Ingham County, MI
Shawanna Vaughn, Founder, Silent Cry Inc.
I-sha-le Watson, Youth Advocate, Juvenile Law Center
ShanaKay Salmon, Public Engagement Manager, IIP
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Wrongful Convictions of Women
This panel focuses on the issue of wrongful convictions of women and highlights potential solutions for prosecutors.
Valena Beety, Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Marissa Boyers Bluestine, Assistant Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Sunny Eaton, Director, Conviction Review Unit, Nashville District Attorney’s Office