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At Professional Risk": Charging Comey Could Land Lindsey Halligan in Hot Water
An ethics professor from Halligan’s law school warns that if she pursues charges against the former FBI director without probable cause, she could be disciplined by the Florida bar.
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“At Professional Risk”: Charging Comey Could Land Lindsey Halligan in Hot Water
http://vanityfair.com/news/story/at-professional-risk-charging-comey-could-land-lindsey-halligan-in-hot-water
An ethics professor from Halligan’s law school warns that if she pursues charges against the former FBI director without probable cause, she should be disciplined by the Florida bar.
Halligan is a member of the Florida bar, explains Anthony V. Alfieri, director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service at Miami University School of Law, where Halligan earned her JD in 2013. That means she is bound by the Florida Rules of Professional Conduct. “She carries special responsibilities of a prosecutor in a criminal case,” Alfieri says. “Among those responsibilities is the core duty to refrain from prosecuting a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause.” Additionally, rules prohibit her “from engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, deceit, or misrepresentation,” says Alfieri, who did not know Halligan in school.
“At Professional Risk”: Charging Comey Could Land Lindsey Halligan in Hot Water
http://vanityfair.com/news/story/at-professional-risk-charging-comey-could-land-lindsey-halligan-in-hot-water
An ethics professor from Halligan’s law school warns that if she pursues charges against the former FBI director without probable cause, she should be disciplined by the Florida bar.
Halligan is a member of the Florida bar, explains Anthony V. Alfieri, director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service at Miami University School of Law, where Halligan earned her JD in 2013. That means she is bound by the Florida Rules of Professional Conduct. “She carries special responsibilities of a prosecutor in a criminal case,” Alfieri says. “Among those responsibilities is the core duty to refrain from prosecuting a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause.” Additionally, rules prohibit her “from engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, deceit, or misrepresentation,” says Alfieri, who did not know Halligan in school.
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