Law.com reports on a California case where a judge reprimanded a part time prosecutor for blogging about a misdemeanor prosecution. As noted in the article:
Prosecutors carry extra duties when it comes to writing about an ongoing proceeding, said John Steele, who teaches legal ethics at Boalt Hall School of Law.
“They have to ‘do justice,’” he said. “Criminal defense attorneys are allowed to just win, as long as they don’t break the rules. … And virtually all the ethics rules acknowledge that special burden.”
This quote caught my eye:
“I don’t think we had particularly thought about it before,” said [a lawyer in the prosecutor’s office]. “You would think common sense would have prevailed.” Now, she added, the employee manual specifies that criminal cases and office business should not be mentioned on the Internet.
Wouldn’t it be more sensible to specify that prosecutors should not disclose inappropriate information in any public forum? It seems [...]

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