The Department of Justice announced Saturday that it was opening a racial discrimination investigation into the Minneapolis-area Hennepin County Attorney’s Office following its embrace of a policy that requires prosecutors to factor a criminal defendant’s race into plea deal negotiations.
Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty, a leftist who has long enjoyed the support of George Soros-backed organizations including TakeAction Minnesota, recently sent a memo to prosecutors in her office titled “Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants.”
The memo, first reported by Lou Raguse of KARE-TV, states that “while racial identity and age are not appropriate grounds for departures [from the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines], proposed resolutions should consider the person charged as a whole person, including their racial identity and age.”
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