I don’t know what Florida’s rules of ethics are, but in several states, a prosecutor who gains a financial stake in a case, through book rights or whatever, must disclose that fact and withdraw as counsel. A different special prosecutor needs to be appointed.
Maybe she’s trying to put herself in a position of having to withdraw from the case, even if she would not go through with trying to sue Harvard. Maybe it is a “way out” for her to not face the humiliation when Zimmerman walks free.
According to the article:
Florida has adopted American Bar Association Standards of Criminal Justice Relating to Prosecution Function. ABA Standard 3-1.3 Conflicts of Interest provides in pertinent part:
(f) A prosecutor should not permit his or her professional judgment or obligations to be affected by his or her own political, financial, business, property, or personal interests.