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655.974 @ 11:13 amMedwed said this kind of “shaming by naming” is often criticized as a breach of professional courtesy. The argument, he said, is that prosecutors are public servants and calling them out by name runs the risk of making them more timid
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Sidney Powell, a former assistant U.S. attorney who worked at the Department of Justice for a decade in various positions, told HuffPost. Powell said the move is an effective one because it creates a public record of conduct and will likely be noted by defense counsel, which could prove useful in future cases.
“More judges need to do things like this, but don’t for reasons stated in the dissent,” Powell said.
“Many don’t have the stones or the convictions that Kozinski has.”
Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written in depth about prosecutorial misconduct, told HuffPost that Kozinski’s naming of names is a “significant and bold act.”