After Mass Dismissals in #Anchorage, #Alaska Officials Step in to Help Prosecute Crimes
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The state offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage, days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city couldn’t hit court deadlines for speedy trials.
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@[email protected] If Anchorage prosecutes three whilst dismissing hundreds, then selective prosecution starts to sound like a winning argument on appeal.