Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The twenty-first episode of the first series examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state, and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. On October 19, 2020, the Department of Justice held a press conference to announce the indictment of 6 Russian hackers. The facts of the case are briefly outlined. We use this specific case and press conference to frame a discussion about the relationship between prosecutors and the media. Specifically, we examine if the relationship between the media is prosecutors is positive or negative and is the media an effect check on prosecutorial power.
Sources:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and



A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment.

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