Pandemic Is No Excuse To Limit Defendants' Trial Rights

By John Richter and Christina Kung ( August 21, 2020, 5:37 PM EDT) -- In 1940, Justice Robert H. Jackson advised federal prosecutors that a "sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen's safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility."[1]...

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