Pollock As A Prosecutor: A Case Study

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According to Pollock, (2017) a prosecutor’s duties are to a system, or society and not an individual. In this incident, a prosecutor has the responsibility to represent the system and review the evidence that a crime has been committed. The media is the problem in this incident. As we all know the media is always in a hurry to break a story that they commonly get their facts incorrect. Or they speculate on what little information they have. In this incident, as a prosecutor I would not arrest the individual on probable cause, but instead I would refer this incident to the grand jury. This would take several months and by that time the media story would have quietly disappeared from the public. Then I would proceed with criminal charges

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