DA Under Investigation For Legal and Spiritual Advice To Prisoner

A Tennessee District Attorney, Bill Gibson, is under investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the state Supreme Court's Board of Professional Responsibility because of a deeply religious two-year exchange of letters with a murderer he helped prosecute. Today's Tennessean reports that in the letters Gibson offered convicted murderer Christopher Adams both legal and spiritual advice. Gibson argued to the state Supreme Court's Board of Professional Responsibility that prosecutors are "referred to in the case law as 'ministers of justice,' with a higher responsibility than merely seeking criminal convictions."