Beautifully written article and so true. BTW, the same culture of extortion exists in civil law, as well, where a person acting in malice with an attack dog attorney can destroy you financially. However, criminal law is much worse, where they can virtually destroy your whole life if you want your right to trial. Prosecutors such as this should be removed. Forget about whether or not it is fair to blame them individually versus "the system." They never stop to question if their high stakes threats are fair, and so no one should be fair to them.
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Beautifully written article and so true. BTW, the same culture of extortion exists in civil law, as well, where a person acting in malice with an attack dog attorney can destroy you financially. However, criminal law is much worse, where they can virtually destroy your whole life if you want your right to trial. Prosecutors such as this should be removed. Forget about whether or not it is fair to blame them individually versus "the system." They never stop to question if their high stakes threats are fair, and so no one should be fair to them.