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Beyond Training Prosecutors about their Disclosure Obligations: Can Prosecutors\u27 Offices Learn from their Lawyers\u27 Mistakes Symposium: New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works

Abstract

Prosecutors, criminal defense lawyers, judges, and legal academics from around the country recently met at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York to discuss prosecutors\u27 compliance with their disclosure obligations. The overarching question was how prosecutors\u27 offices could do a better job. To assist representatives of the legal profession in approaching this question from new directions, the Symposium organizers invited speakers from outside the legal profession to talk about the causes of error and methods used to reduce error in other contexts. One of the themes was that, outside the practice of law, individuals and institutions learn from their mistakes. This Article considers whether prosecutors\u27 offices can identify and learn from their lawyers\u27 disclosure mistakes

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