Prosecutors and their agents, agents and their prosecutors

Daniel Richman

doi:10.2307/1123778

Prosecutors and their agents, agents and their prosecutors

Daniel Richman

Columbia Law School

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This Article seeks to describe the dynamics of interaction between federal prosecutors and federal enforcement agents, and to suggest how these dynamics affect the exercise of enforcement discretion. After considering the virtues and pitfalls of both hierarchical and coordinate organizational modes, the Article offers a normative model that views prosecutors and agents as members of a "working group," with each side monitoring the other. It concludes by exploring how this model can be furthered or frustrated with various procedural and structural changes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	749-832
Number of pages	84
Journal	Columbia Law Review
Volume	103
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/1123778
Publication status	Published - May 2003

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