As Donald Trump awaits the decision on whether will be the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted, the spotlight is on the lead prosecutor: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D). Here’s what to know about the Manhattan prosecutor.
a Police Accountability Unit to investigate officers who engage in criminal conduct in their policing and a Post-Conviction Justice Unit to reinvestigate closed cases in which there are credible claims of innocence or an unjust conviction.Bragg was raised in Harlem and has spoken about experiences with police officers there and growing up in the neighborhood during the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic.
Mark Berman, Shayna Jacobs, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Philip Bump, Derek Hawkins, John Wagner and Mariana Alfaro contributed to this report.
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