Sam Waterston Lulled You Into a False Sense of Security

The Agitator’s annual round-up of America’s worst prosecutors is more depressing than one could possibly imagine. The ability to vote to crown one the Demon King or Queen of 2011 does little to salve the wound.

For the record, it’s hard to top John Bradley, who frequents message boards complaining about innocent people being exonerated post-conviction by DNA evidence, and concluding that destroying all evidence immediately following sentencing would be a more convenient system.

Bradley also suspended the investigation into the Cameron Todd Willingham debacle, which, in case you missed it, was the subject of one of the finest New Yorker pieces in recent memory.

(Obvious and sincere disclaimer about America’s many fine, upstanding prosecutors, who are even better than Sam Waterston, who sometimes got pissy with the detectives and Serena.)