Being primarily a criminal, #1 doesn't follow my experiences. I've been very friendly with a large number of prosecutors in my time, and I can't imagine a singl

Being primarily a criminal, #1 doesn't follow my experiences. I've been very friendly with a large number of prosecutors in my time, and I can't imagine a single one of them being a liberal. #2 it is totally true that prosecutors heavily rely on the judges being ex-colleagues of theirs. I have never heard of a prosecutor only bringing charges where the defendant is clearly guilty, though. That does not follow my experience, primarily in pre-trial detention, where I got to read the discovery materials in thousands of cases. Obviously they have a bar in felony cases of having to pass a grand jury, but it was once said you could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich#Cultural_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich#Cultural_impact