*** Report: Prosecutors hiding evidence
CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors throughout the country have hid evidence,
leading to wrongful convictions, retrials and appeals that cost
taxpayers millions of dollars, according to a Chicago Tribune
analysis of thousands of court records in homicide cases. The records
show prosecutors have won conviction against black men, hiding
evidence the real killers were white. They also have prosecuted a
wife, hiding evidence her husband committed suicide. And they have
prosecuted parents, hiding evidence their daughter was killed by wild
dogs. "Winning has become more important than doing justice. Nobody
runs for the Senate saying I did justice," said Harvard University
law professor Alan Dershowitz, a longtime critic of prosecutors.
