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Toward an Agenda for the Next DA

BNN – March 20, 2018

Crop of liberal candidates look to rattle normally sleepy DA races

The Boston Globe – March 5, 2018

Suffolk DA's Departure Offers Possibility Of Progressive Overhaul

WGBH – February 27, 2018

Cape and Island DA Michael O’Keefe addressed the media in 2015.

It matters who the DA is

The Boston Globe – February 8, 2018

DAs need to be held accountable

Commonwealth Magazine – February 11, 2018

Massachusetts ACLU Says Concern Over Civil Rights Violation In Nunes Memo Is 'Hypocritical'

WGBH (start audio at 04:45) – February 6, 2018

ACLU criminal justice reform campaign takes aim at district attorneys

The Bay State Banner – July 19, 2017

What Do Voters Need to Know About District Attorneys

NECN – January 11, 2018

ACLU releases DA report card rubric

The Berkshire Eagle – December 14, 2017

Massachusetts ACLU survey: Legal system broken, public unsure about role of DAs

MassLive – July 12, 2017

ACLU campaign to spotlight crucial role of DAs

Commonwealth Magazine – July 12th, 2017

DAs & CANDIDATES IN THE NEWS

A reformer, Andrea Harrington, running for district attorney; questions raised about Capeless’ tactics

The Berkshire Edge – April 3, 2018

Four vying for vacant D.A. seat

Bay State Banner – March 21, 2018

Attorney, former state Senate candidate to challenge new Berkshire DA

The Berkshire Eagle – March 20, 2018

Mass. voters shouldn't short-circuit DA races

The Boston Globe – March 19, 2018

Rachael Rollins announces bid for Suffolk County DA's office

Bay State Banner – March 15, 2018

Berkshire DA says exit aimed at helping top aide win post

Commonwealth Magazine – March 2, 2018

District Attorney Conley’s departure sets off yet another contested rac

The Bay State Banner – March 1, 2018

McAuliffe says she’ll be the ‘progressive change candidate’ for DA

Commonwealth Magazine – February 21, 2018

Conley won’t seek reelection as Suffolk DA

Commonwealth Magazine – February 20, 2018

Suffolk DA Dan Conley won’t seek reelection

The Boston Globe – February 20, 2018

DAs differ on expense approaches

Commonwealth Magazine – January 9, 2018

Daniel Medwed, professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, wrote the 2012 book, “Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent.”

Wayward prosecutors go unpunished as prison time for victims piles up

New England Center for Investigative Reporting – April 3, 2016

How To Reform Criminal Justice, When Prosecutors Hold The Power

WBUR – July 19, 2017

Fact-checking the district attorneys

Commonwealth Magazine – June 8, 2017

All voices, even judges’, belong in reform debate

The Boston Globe – March 12, 2017

District attorneys abuse mandatory minimum drug sentences

Commonwealth Magazine – June 14, 2017

And Justice For None: Inside Biggest Law Enforcement Scandal in Massachusetts History

Rolling Stone – January 3, 2018

What’s Said Is Not What’s Done: How Reagan-Era Drug Warrior Politics Dominate in Progressive Massachusetts

Injustice Today – November 13, 2017

Norfolk County Superior Court, Dedham, MA

Not quite free at last: Fred Weichel and the inability of prosecutors to fully let go

Injustice Today – August 9, 2017

Victor Rosario was convicted in 1983 of starting a fire that killed eight people in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 2014 that conviction was overturned. He is awaiting a prosecutor's decision about a retrial.

The Weakest Link Standard

The Marshall Project – August 8th, 2017

Former Massachusetts assistant attorney general Anne Kaczmarek, who prosecuted disgraced drug lab chemist Sonja Farak in 2013 but withheld details of Farak’s drug use from defendants whose cases she had handled. A judge said Kaczmarek’s conduct was “reprehensible” and “tampered with the fair administration of justice.”

Prosecutors slammed for ‘lack of moral compass,’ withholding evidence in widening Mass. drug lab scandal

The Washington Post – October 4, 2017

Annie Dookhan, a former chemist at a crime lab, listens to the judge during her arraignment in Brockton, Massachusetts, on Jan. 30, 2013.

A Shocking Reminder of How Reliant Prosecutors Are on Plea Deals

Slate – July 21, 2017

Possessing drugs in a school zone often triggers a mandatory minimum sentence.

Mandatory Minimums Don’t Make Us Safer

Slate – May 1, 2017

DAs MAKING HEADLINES

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He’s Exceeding Expectations.

The Intercept — March 20, 2018

Philadelphia’s New Top Prosecutor Is Rolling Out Wild, Unprecedented Criminal Justice Reforms

Slate – March 14, 2018

Kim Foxx Just Released Six Years of Data — Most Prosecutors’ Offices Remain Black Boxes

Injustice Today – March 7, 2018

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