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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This is the flaw in the adversarial system on both the crim and civil side. When I defended criminal cases, the AUSAs were under intense pressure to win at all costs. I could understand perverting truth and making absurd claims look plausible for money on the civil side because, well, thats just money. Doesn’t make it right, but its hardly as loathesome as pushing a crim case you know is weak. I honestly don’t understand how some DAs and AUSAs do the immoral shit they do. The most often used rationalization I heard back then was “well, they’re guilty of something,” or “getting him off the street was unquestionably a benefit to society.” That’s true, I guess. But doesn’t that mean that some guilty party is left running around in society? How do you reconcile that morally?
The worst of the worst are the politically motivated prosecutors. People like the USA in Pittsburgh who agrees to test novel pornography and drug paraphenalia prosecutions to curry favor with Bush to get an appointment to some cushy DC gig or Court or Eliott Spitzer, who started off with a decent cause and then became an out of control megalomaniacal whore, force their minions to do all sorts of awful shit to make their offices look tough. Prosecutors should not be allowed to run for higher office right out of their prosecutorial gigs. They should have to take 3 years off in between, to make the whoring-up they do before a run at the governorship less attractive a vote-garnering investment. There’s an inherent conflict of interest there.
Fuck, Bill Clinton executed a man so mentally disabled he asked the guard to keep a piece of pie for him before he was taken to the death chamber. He said wanted to eat it when he got back. Bill did that because if he didn't, a pack of assholes who love to say "we need to get tougher on crime" wouldn't vote for him. We are pretty tough on crime. That stupid plank of the GOP and Dem party platform should have been retired around 1985.
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Lost in Translation. Then again, I also like thongs...and nothing at all. I have no point.
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