A top-notch district attorney’s office must competently and fairly execute its vital role in the administration of justice. Decisions about prosecuting charges, from shoplifting to murder, are tremendously consequential to a community’s well-being. Prosecutors oversee investigations and decide what charges, if any, should be filed. They negotiate plea bargains or take a case to trial and recommend sentences.

The district attorney oversees an office of hundreds of assistant district attorneys, investigators and support staff who are on the front lines daily in a complex and fraught criminal justice system. It’s essential that the public is confident its district attorney is making independent judgments in the pursuit of justice. In Suffolk County, incumbent Raymond A. Tierney is running un

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