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How To Get Away With Career Murder: The Unconstitutional Blueprint for Systematically Purging Whistleblowers from U.S. Law Enforcement
Bepress Selected Works
(2016)
Abstract
Obviously U.S. state or federal prosecutors can be among the conspirators subjecting any given law enforcement whistleblower to retaliatory criminal prosecution. In most instances such misdeeds are only under the color of law, i.e., they are the handy work of rogue government agents and do not constitute sovereign acts. However, according to the authors, an official or sovereign choice to “prefer” these oppressors is made each time a U.S. government agency opts not to thoroughly investigate their alleged whistleblower retaliation. The authors submit that all related convictions are accordingly void. In addition to the “sworn public officer discrimination” they contend these convictions reflect, the authors propose that the corresponding role of after-the-fact accomplice to retaliatory selective prosecution offends due process provisions and extends beyond any government function cognizable under the U.S. Constitution.
Keywords
- law enforcement,
- government accountability,
- whistleblower protection,
- access to courts,
- equal protection,
- retaliatory prosecution,
- selective prosecution,
- prosecutor accountability,
- law enforcement whistleblower,
- constitutional entitlement,
- probable cause,
- command and control,
- Black Lives Matter,
- police brutality,
- excessive force,
- police accountability
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Publication Date
2016
Citation Information
Zena D. Crenshaw-Logal, Esq.*, Dr. Andrew D. Jackson, and Dr. Sandra Nunn. "How To Get Away With Career Murder: The Unconstitutional Blueprint for Systematically Purging Whistleblowers from U.S. Law Enforcement" Bepress Selected Works (2016). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zena_crenshaw-logal/8/