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38908P3 Text V OLUME 51 / N UMBER 2 • A PRIL 2018 A P UBLICATION OF THE N ATIONAL D ISTRICT A TTORNEYS A SSOCIATION The PPPRRROOOSSSEEECCCUUUTTTOOORRR — IN THIS ISSUE — IS GEORGE SOROS A THREAT TO APOLITICAL PROSECUTORS AND POLITICS-FREE PROSECUTION? REDEFINING WINS AND LOSSES: FURTHER ENHANCING THE PROSECUTOR PLAYBOOK WITNESS INTIMIDATION: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PROTECT YOUR WITNESS / PART 2 A BRIEF REFRESHER: IMPEACHMENT FOR A CONVICTION INVOLVING A DISHONEST ACT OR FALSE STATEMENT Wa yne A. Jo rdon & Judge Sandra Grisham 2018 National Courses Career Prosecutor Prosecuting Drug Cases May 14–23, New Orleans, LA October 1–3, Salt Lake City, UT Executive Course Domestic Violence June 11–15, Washington, DC October 29–November 2, Long Beach, CA Prosecuting Sexual Assault & Related Crimes Mental Health August 13–17, Bellevue, WA November 5–7, Myrtle Beach, SC Office Administration Forensic Evidence September 10–14, Phoenix, AZ December 6–8, Albuquerque, NM To register or obtain additional information about a course, see our website: www.ndaa.org National District Attorneys Association, Arlington, VA / 703.549.9222 / 703.836.3195 fax 2 F EBRUARY / 2018 V OLUME 51 / N UMBER 2 • A PRIL 2018 APUBLICATION OF THE N ATIONAL D ISTRICT A TTORNEYS A SSOCIATION The PPPRRROOOSSSEEECCCUUUTTTOOORRR Contact NDAA S EORGE OROS A HREAT TO POLITICAL The Prosecutor, ISS No. 0027-6383, I G S T A National District Attorneys 8 Association. Views expressed in the If you need to contact a PROSECUTORS AND POLITICS -FREE PROSECUTION ? articles in this publication are those staff member of NDAA of the authors and do not B Y J OSHUA M ARQUIS regarding any aspect of necessarily represent the views of the National District Attorneys your membership, please Association. The Prosecutor is use the list of names, num - published by NDAA for its members bers and email addresses REDEFINING WINS AND LOSSES : F URTHER ENHANCING as part of their member services. below. Address all correspondence about 10 THE PROSECUTOR PLAYBOOK subscriptions, undeliverable copies and changes of address to: B Y A MANDA JACINTO [email protected] or mail to: NDAA Headquarters Lynzie Adams, 703.549.9222 Membership Coordinator, NDAA, Executive Director 1400 Crystal Drive, Suite 330 Nelson O. Bunn, Jr. WITNESS INTIMIDATION : W HAT YOU CAN DO TO Arlington, VA 22202 [email protected] 13 703.549.9222, fax 703.836.3195. PROTECT YOUR WITNESS / P ART 2 Visit NDAA at: http://www.ndaa.org. Chief Operating Officer B Y K RISTINE H AMANN AND J ESSICA T RAUNER Christine Mica Advertising [email protected] NDAA encourages its Finance members to support the Agnita Kote A B RIEF REFRESHER : I MPEACHMENT FOR A advertisers in The Prosecutor. [email protected] 29 They help to make this CONVICTION INVOLVING A DISHONEST ACT OR FALSE publication possible. For information about advertising Policy, Government & rates or to place an ad in The Legislative Affairs STATEMENT Prosecutor , please contact Nelson O. Bunn, Jr. B Y B RETT W ESSELS Nelson O. Bunn, Jr. , Executive [email protected] Director , NDAA at [email protected] or Membership 703-519-1666. 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A RMANINI County Attorney District Attorney District Attorney First Assistant Prosecuting Minneapolis, Minnesota Plymouth, Massachusetts Bronx, NY Attorney President-elect KEITH KANESHIRO HILLAR MOORE Dayton, Ohio JONATHAN BLODGETT 1, 2 Prosecuting Attorney District Attorney MARY ASHLEY District Attorney Honolulu, Hawaii Baton Rouge, Louisiana Assistant District Attorney Salem, Massachusetts CYRUS VANCE PETE ORPUT San Bernardino, COUNTY ATTORNEY California Chairman of the Board District Attorney New York, New York STILLWATER , M INNESOTA MICHAEL RAMOS 1, 2 DAVID C. B ROWN MATT WILBER District Attorney Chief Deputy County JAMES NAGLE County Attorney San Bernardino, Attorney Prosecuting Attorney Council Bluffs, Iowa California Walla Walla, Washington Minneapolis, Minnesota Prosecutor Coordinators Treasurer/Secretary GREG TOTTEN 1 LORI DIGIOSIA DUFFIE STONE 1 CAMMIE WYATT District Attorney Depu ty Commonwealth’s Solicitor President, NAPC Attorney Ventura, California Director Bluffton, South Carolina Stafford, Virginia 1 Mississippi Prosecutors’ Asst Treasurer/Secretary AMY WEIRICH District Attorney Training JOHN D. E VANS DAVE ARONBERG Memphis, Tennessee Jackson, Mississippi Assistant Prosecuting State’s Attorney Attorney BILL MONTGOMERY 1 Palm Beach, Florida Clayton, Missouri Past Treasurer/Secretary County Attorney Phoenix, Arizona LEMUEL MARTINEZ RICHARD MINATOYA District Attorney RAY MORROGH 2 Deputy Prosecuting Grants, New Mexico Co mmonwealth’s Attorney Attorney Maui, Hawaii Fairfax, Virginia ELIZABETH ORTIZ 1 Executive Director KIMBERLY N. O VERTON 1 APAAC Chief Resource Prosecutor Phoenix, AZ Cary, North Carolina NANCY PARR Commonwealth’s Attorney Chesapeake, Virginia 1 Executive Committee 2 Executive Working Group TO BE THE VOICE OF AMERICA’S PROSECUTORS AND TO SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE. 4 A PRIL / 2018 Past Presidents Past Vice Presidents Past Vice Presid State Directors MICHAEL RAMOS 1, 2 JAMES C. B ACKSTROM LEE POLIKOV MIKE O’D ELL , Alabama District Attorney County Attorney County Attorney GREGG OLSON , Alaska 1 San Bernardino, California Hastings, Minnesota Papillion, Nebraska BILL MONTGOMERY , Arizona TOM TATUM II, Arkansas WILLIAM J. F ITZPATRICK 1, 2 MATTHEW REDLE JULIA BATES DEAN FLIPPO , California District Attorney County Attorney Prosecuting Attorney MICHAEL ROURKE Colorado Syracuse, New York Sheridan, Wyoming Toledo, Ohio GAIL HARDY , Connecticut MICHAEL R. M OORE JOHN P. S ARCONE MATT DENN , Delaware KEVIN J. B AXTER State’s Attorney County Attorney BILL CERVONE , Florida Prosecuting Attorney Des Moines, Iowa Huron, South Dakota Sandusky, Ohio VIC REYNOLDS , Georgia HENRY GARZA 2 JOHN W. S INQUEFIELD KEITH KANESHIRO , Hawaii BRADLEY C. B ERRY Special Assistant Attorney GRANT LOEBS , Idaho District Attorney District Attorney Belton, Texas General JOSEPH H. M CMAHON , Illinois McMinnville, Oregon Baton Rouge, Louisiana KEITH HENDERSON , Indiana JOSEPH I. C ASSILLY KEVIN COCKRELL MARK A. S ORSAIA ALAN OSTERGREN , Iowa State’s Attorney County Attorney Prosecuting Attorney MARC BENNETT , Kansas Bel Air, Maryland Mt. Sterling, Kentucky Winfield, West Virginia CLAY M. B ISHOP JR., Kentucky DANIEL CONLEY 1 PAUL D. C ONNICK , J R., Louisiana MATHIAS H. H ECK , J R. HENRY VALDEZ STEPHANIE ANDERSON , Maine Prosecuting Attorney District Attorney Director, New Mexico J. C HARLES SMITH III, Maryland Dayton, Ohio Boston, Massachusetts Administrative Office of JOSEPH EARLY , J R., Massachusetts SCOTT HIXSON District Attorneys ROBERT MCCULLOCH 1 DAVID LEYTON , Michigan Deputy Solicitor Santa Fe, New Mexico MARK OSTREM , Minnesota Prosecuting Attorney Georgetown, South Carolina Clayton, Missouri SHERRI BEVANS WALSH RONNIE L. H ARPER , Mississippi JACKIE LACEY Prosecuting Attorney ERIC ZAHND , Missouri Prosecutor Associations District At torney Akron, Ohio MIKE WEBER , Montana WILLIAM JORDEN Los Angel es, California DONALD KLEINE , Nebraska President BARBARA LAWALL BRYCE SHIELDS , Nevada National Black Prosecutors County Attorney VACANT , New Hampshire Association Tucson, Arizona CAMELIA VALDES , New Jersey Baton Rouge, Louisiana JOSHUA K. M ARQUIS DONALD GALLEGOS , New Mexico DAVID SOARES , New York ELIZABETH ORTIZ District Attorney WILLIAM WEST , North Carolina Executive Director Astoria, Oregon BIRCH BURDICK , North Dakota Arizona Prosecuting ERIC L. O LSEN DAVID PHILLIPS , Ohio Attorneys Advisory Commonwealth’s Attorney GREG MASHBURN , Oklahoma Council Stafford, Virginia BRAD BERRY , Oregon National Association of Justice SCOTT PATTERSON THOMAS P. H OGAN , Pennsylvania Information Systems State’s Attorney PETER F. K ILMARTIN , Rhode Island Phoenix, Arizona Easton, Maryland DUFFIE STONE , South Carolina 1 MARK VARGO , South Dakota RUSSELL JOHNSON , Tennessee DAVID ESCAMILLA
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