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Could they ethically do that? As then the prosecution has no reason to grant any leniency, so whichever clients they tried would receive far longer sentences.

• djoldman 6y ago
  The prosecutors don't sentence defendants, judges do. Additionally, judges would know what was going on and presumably take it under consideration.
  • munk-a 6y ago
    Depending on the jurisdiction, though, the judge may be an elected official that doesn't want to look "soft on crime" for re-election or even may be receiving a big chunk of campaign donations from private prison organizations. It's an interesting open question whether judges should be elected or not (though I lean toward no due to the lack of visibility of their actions)... but what isn't up for debate is how corrupt the US election system is - as long as campaign finance is broken we can't expect the judiciary to fix things for us.