Justice influenced by prosecutors’ conduct

USA Today’s Brad Heath and Kevin McCoy documented 201 criminal cases across the nation in which federal judges found that prosecutors broke laws and ethics rules. “They caught some prosecutors hiding evidence, found others lying to judges and juries, and said others had broken plea bargains.”  The abuses resulted in both the wrongful incarceration of innocent people and for the guilty to go free.  An interactive map allows readers to examine the cases and types of problems identified in the investigation.