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74 Miss. L.J. 955 (2004-2005)
Prosecution Clinics: Dealing with Professional Role

handle is hein.journals/mislj74 and id is 1021 raw text is: PROSECUTION CLINICS: DEALING WITH PROFESSIONAL ROLE Peter A. Joy* Today prosecutors have an extensive domain and are regarded as potentially, if not in reality, the key actor in the criminal justice system.' The chief objection to prosecutorial discretion is that it has traditionally been unstructured and largely un- controlled. The result is that the individual prosecutor has, in large part, not been accountable for many of his actions either within the office, or with respect to other sources of public policy and law.2 The public prosecutor cannot take as a guide for the conduct of his office the standards of an attorney ap- pearing on behalf of an individual client. The freedom elsewhere wisely granted to partisan advocacy must be severely curtailed if the prosecutor's duties are to be properly discharged.3 Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Special thanks go to Professor Hans P. Sinha, Director of the Prosecutorial Externship Program at the University of Mississippi, who organized the Prosecution Externship Clinic Symposium, and to the editors and staff of the Mississippi Law Journal for publishing the special symposium issue on the subject of prosecution clinics. ' William F. McDonald, The Prosecutor's Domain, in THE PROSECUTOR 15, 19 (William F. McDonald ed., 1979). ' John Jay Douglas, Introduction and Overview to DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY OF THE PROSECUTOR 1, 1 (John Jay Douglas ed., 1977). ' Professional Responsibility: Report of the Joint Conference, 44 A.B.A. J. 1159, 1218 (1958). 955

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