Are prosecutors above the law in Louisiana?

Has prosecutorial misconduct become an epidemic in Louisiana? A number of national publications seem to think so. Nary a week goes by when there is not a story of some Louisiana prosecutor supposedly pursuing justice by breaking the law. Just recently, The New York Times ran a lead editorial calling out Louisiana by alleging that prosecutors “are almost never held accountable for mi...

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