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Apparently some believe only prosecutors are allowed to have such discretion. They guard their power jealously. I wonder of the prosecutor who was talking abo

Apparently some believe only prosecutors are allowed to have such discretion. They guard their power jealously. I wonder of the prosecutor who was talking about using his discretion understood the irony of what he was saying or the hypocrisy of his position.

shkkmo 9y ago
> “I heard her pitch, and I just said, ‘No way,’” said Joshua Marquis, the district attorney in Clatsop County, Ore. “The justice system should never be a profit system.” > Mr. Marquis said his office prosecutes serial shoplifters, but police send him few cases involving first-time offenders. When they do, Mr. Marquis is likely to give the shoplifter a citation and order him or her to perform community service, he said. What irony? What hypocrisy? The discretion been referenced in that quote is not the prosecutor's but that of the police who send him cases. The only irony I see here is that a program designed to help first time offenders actually ends up being worse for them, because first time offenders rarely get prosecuted?