ABA-469
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| Prosecutors who allow private debt collection companies to use their stationery to explicitly or implicitly threaten prosecution of delinquent debtors violate: (1) ABA Model Rule 8.4(c)'s anti-deception provision; (2) ABA Model Rule 5.5(a)'s prohibition on assisting nonlawyer's unauthorized practice of law, because such conduct necessarily involves nonlawyers analyzing whether a crime has been committed and a prosecution would be justified. |