INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana prosecutors hope to fend off a proposed constitutional amendment they say could politicize prosecutorial decision-making – and, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, released their own suggested legislative fixes.
“When we’re in a big room together, to be honest, I’m not sure who I’m sitting next to, a Republican or Democratic prosecutor,” Wabash County Prosecutor Bill Hartley said.
“Candidly, we don’t care, because at the end of the day, we all have the same goal, and that’s public safety,” said Hartley, who is the president of the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys, which advocates for the state’s 91 elected prosecuting attorneys.
The group is mobilizing against a disciplinary proposal filed last week by freshman Rep. Andrew Ireland, R-Indianapolis…