Prosecutors Gone Wild

John Farmer, the attorney general of New Jersey from 1999 to 2002, has a piece in today's New York Times entitled "Prosecutors Gone Wild" that lists a few of the more egregious cases of misconduct from prosecutors nationwide:

In 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit took the extraordinary step of ordering the release of a convicted Wisconsin state employee during oral argument; it then reversed her federal conviction, which had been based on the government’s overreaching application of the 'theft of honest services' corruption statute. She later said that the United States attorney [Steven Biskupic], who had been appointed by President George W. Bush, offered her leniency if she would cooperate in a case against the governor, a Democrat [Jim Doyle] in a tight re-election campaign.

We ask again who is policing the prosecutors: It ought to be we.