A recent blog in Reason.com brought to light the bragging of a local Indiana prosecutor who is seeking reelection.
The full headline of the posting is entitled “Indiana Prosecutor Bradley Cooper Is ‘Proudly Over-Crowding our Prisons’:
Cooper’s new campaign flyer brags about the people he’s put in prison for decades over drug sales and minor theft” and also includes a flyer that also features mugshots from convicted criminals and includes a man who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for selling meth, a man who received a 40-year sentence for burglary (he was arrested after breaking into someone’s home and stealing $52 and was given a 20 year sentence along with a 20 year enhancement due to the fact that a trial court also determined that he was a “habitual offender”), and a schizophrenic woman who received a 55-year sentence for drowning her son while claiming it was God’s will and then turned herself in immediately.
Since the duty of a prosecutor is to seek justice and not merely to convict, this local prosecutor’s behavior does seem to reflect very poorly on what a prosecutor should really be and casts a dark shadow over those countless prosecutors who pride themselves on being fair and truly seeking justice.
