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Persistence is a virtue, Lee Polikov might have thought in March as he sat around a table at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., discussing issues with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Polikov’s road to one of the inner sanctums of American power had been long, and fueled by years-long concern that law enforcement is losing ground to innovative criminal defense attorneys and to civil rights organizations who devise ever more creative ways to challenge evidentiary procedures and other tools of the prosecutorial trade.