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The current framework is not sufficient. The DA needs adversarial checks too.

salawat 4y ago
Public Defenders are supposed to be a check on the DA, but we can all see how well that turns out funding-wise. I can only assume the media was assumed to be a check on the police, as they're the only professionally investigative edifice that isn't government funded. Again though, there is a notable asymmetry there. Particularly nowadays.
- Avshalom 4y ago
  they're coming for the public defenders too. https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-gideon-v-wainwright-conservative-legal-movement/ https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-gideo...
  - drstewart 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice >Demand Justice is a politically progressive American 501(c)(4) legal advocacy organization. It focuses on motivating left-leaning voters based on its goal of changing the composition of the American federal judiciary, as well as encouraging the United States Senate to confirm progressive nominees to judicial positions and to expand the United States Supreme Court. How unbiased.
    - salawat 4y ago
      I honestly don't care in this specific case. It could be the head of the Union of Public Defenders everywhere. The fact is if you look at the funds allocated to support the police/prosecution, then look at the dollars spent maintaining the Public Defenders office (which should arguably be at parity), and given the unavailibility of "stealing from the populace" (civil asset forfeiture or fine assessment) to level the budgetary playing field, the resulting fiscal asymmetry would and should make any bookkeeper blush. Our system is no justice system without parity between the prosecution and defense. That is nowhere near the case. It is an undeniable fact.
    - tehwebguy 4y ago
      Don’t worry they’re an evil version of this too called The Federalist Society.

Public Defenders are supposed to be a check on the DA, but we can all see how well that turns out funding-wise. I can only assume the media was assumed to be a check on the police, as they're the only professionally investigative edifice that isn't government funded. Again though, there is a notable asymmetry there. Particularly nowadays.

Avshalom 4y ago
they're coming for the public defenders too. https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-gideon-v-wainwright-conservative-legal-movement/ https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-gideo...
- drstewart 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Justice >Demand Justice is a politically progressive American 501(c)(4) legal advocacy organization. It focuses on motivating left-leaning voters based on its goal of changing the composition of the American federal judiciary, as well as encouraging the United States Senate to confirm progressive nominees to judicial positions and to expand the United States Supreme Court. How unbiased.
  - salawat 4y ago
    I honestly don't care in this specific case. It could be the head of the Union of Public Defenders everywhere. The fact is if you look at the funds allocated to support the police/prosecution, then look at the dollars spent maintaining the Public Defenders office (which should arguably be at parity), and given the unavailibility of "stealing from the populace" (civil asset forfeiture or fine assessment) to level the budgetary playing field, the resulting fiscal asymmetry would and should make any bookkeeper blush. Our system is no justice system without parity between the prosecution and defense. That is nowhere near the case. It is an undeniable fact.
  - tehwebguy 4y ago
    Don’t worry they’re an evil version of this too called The Federalist Society.