The President's Commission gave rise to what has been called the ________ of prosecution in which the prosecutor's office marketed itself as a professional organization equipped to hold offenders accountable by obtaining guilty pleas or trial convictions, or in some cases diverting cases for treatment
A) Diversion and treatment model
B) Prosecutorial conviction model
C) Prosecutorial discretion model
D) Felony case processor model
D
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