Holy. Jeebus.
So if a DA ignores his employee's bad habit of hiding evidence to convict guys, including a particularly egregious Brady violation which requires violating law and ethics every day for 14 years under their supervision - it only counts as though it happened the one time it was caught, and obviously since it's only that one time, it was just a mixup.
IN FACT Scalia thinks it's an 'inevitability of mistakes.'
I'm not going to lay out the case, the Slate article does a good job. Instead, I'm going to get into these opinions a little bit, so pray for me - these things are corrosive to the mind and soul, and the outrage necessary to wade through them is quite exhausting.
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