Professor John Gross recently told ProPublica there is a disparity in the way prosecutors in Alabama’s 67 counties have applied the “chemical endangerment of a child” statute.
“Each county is its own little fiefdom,” said Gross, director of the Law School’s criminal defense clinic. “You get vastly different results in terms of how the cases are prosecuted.”
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