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OUTRAGE: Meet Glenn Kurtzrock. Prosecuted ppl for murder he knew were innocent. To do so, he altered/withheld 100s of pages of exculpatory evidence. 5 murder cases dismissed so far. Fired. But still practicing law. Using experience as “former homicide prosecutor” to get business. 
In one case, Kurtzrock purposefully removed evidence pointing to another suspect he knew defense was investigating. Removed covers of memobooks to make it look like original. Case was dismissed mid-trial after a man named Messiah Booker already spent 18 months locked up pretrial.
After Suffolk County District Attorney’s office started investigating, they agreed to dismiss all charges against another man, Shawn Lawrence, who already spent *6 years wrongfully imprisoned.* Judge called Kurtzrock’s misconduct “stunning.” He was fired. That was 2 years ago.
Aside from his firing (extremely rare occurrence), Kurtzrock has faced no consequences. No discipline or criminal charges. Still practicing 2 years later. But news: TODAY @Innocence Project has filed a lawsuit to unseal disciplinary proceedings against him.innocenceproject.org/innocence-proj…
Nina Morrison (@Nina_R_Morr) of the Innocence Project argues: “The public has a right to an attorney discipline process that is transparent, efficient, & produces just results, especially for the most serious types of misconduct committed by lawyers who hold public office.”
“It’s extremely rare for prosecutors to be fired for misconduct. How can it be that two years after these findings were made in open court, Mr. Kurtzrock is still practicing law, and still advertises his experience as a ‘former homicide prosecutor’ to generate business?”
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, official misconduct (by police &/or prosecutors) is a factor in approximately half of the nearly 2,200 exonerations across the country since 1989. Yet prosecutors can rarely be sued for misconduct, no matter how egregious.
People who public defenders serve are arrested, charged, devastated, for causing so much less harm, more frequently to themselves not others. Meanwhile, this man, Glenn Kurtzrock, took extraordinary steps to send innocent people to prison & he still practices? From his website:
