Prosecutors

* Your March 7 Opinion article about prosecutorial conduct/misconduct leads one to reflect. The mentioned abuses and questionable procedures can probably be traced to the practice in the past of certain prosecutors, who in their zeal to convict Mafia members, drug traffickers and other undesirables, acted, after obtaining the acquiescence of courts with the same dislike of the undesirables, to bend and obviate the rules of due process and fair play.

Apparently, once the wall of governmental protection of due process and fair play for anyone is breached, inexorably, the breach becomes wider and wider and zealous prosecutors are then enabled to deny due process and fair play as they choose.

SAMUEL GOLDFARB

Retired Attorney

Sherman Oaks