Dual civil and criminal cases are not ethical

Attorney General Margery Bronster is under scrutiny regarding her choice to mount dual civil and criminal cases against Bishop Estate trustees.

Henry Peters, one of the Bishop Estate trustees involved, called for the proceeding indictment to be dismissed.

While Bronster's pursuit of the Bishop Estate trustees is justified and commendable, it is unethical to mount both civil and criminal cases simultaneously. The situation gives her an unfair advantage; she has two teams working on the same basic case, and each case gives her leverage in the other.

She should, in the name of fairness, pursue and obtain a criminal indictment before setting up to pursue a civil movement. To pursue both is an unfair tactic that allows her to use her vast resources as Attorney General to gain the upper hand.

While it might be perfectly acceptable to pursue the cases consecutively, as in the O.J. Simpson case, Bronster should rely on the vast amount of evidence she has obtained without the use of these questionable tactics.