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A more likely outcome would be a doubling or tripling down on the legal threats to the defendant. It’s not the public defender’s call to make, and prosecutors a
by falcolas 6y ago
A more likely outcome would be a doubling or tripling down on the legal threats to the defendant. It’s not the public defender’s call to make, and prosecutors are already pretty good at scaring the shit out of the defendants.
- giantg2 6y agoAnd commiting prosecutorial misconduct with no consequences. Why is this downvoted? I've witnessed it. How else would you describe a trooper and ADA knew that a charge was incorrect and still let it stand, including pretrial restrictions only under the incorrect charge.
- djoldman 6y agoThe beauty of it is that they pretty much already throw as many charges that they can.
- giantg2 6y agoI've seen an ADA and trooper hold a charge on someone even though they knew it was the wrong charge. That charge carried pretrial restrictions that the correct charge did not.