Two former Plymouth County prosecutors have their careers on the line after a Board of Bar Overseers hearing panel found “unacceptable” misconduct on their part in a case that put a Brockton High School senior behind bars for 17 years for a crime she didn’t commit.

“We are mainly struck by how seriously the respondents’ misconduct undermined the integrity and reputation of prosecutors in this Commonwealth,” BBO hearing committee members Payal Salsburg and Melina McTigue Garland wrote in their report. “We cannot minimize the harm to the integrity of our legal system and the administration of justice when the motivations and biases of prosecutors become news.”

They added that the “unacceptable” behavior illustrated terrible judgment and a complete disregard for the high standards a prosecu

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