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Do they drop them or pile on charges in the hopes of a lesser plea?
by greedo 3y ago
Do they drop them or pile on charges in the hopes of a lesser plea?
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- qingcharles 3y agoThe latter. I can think of a very small handful of cases where the prosecution drop marginal cases. I've seen cases where there is zero evidence be taken all the way to the day of trial in order to try and get a plea. I see a great number of cases dropped on day of trial when the defendant won't plead out. Source: 11 years experience in the criminal justice system.
- Lord-Jobo 3y agoIncredibly localized and subject to personal biases/ambitions for the prosecution. So sometimes you will see a huge majority of cases under certain categories dropped to boost their numbers (or because it makes sense, like the generally unlawful arrests during the George Floyd protests) and sometimes you will see an insane stacking of cases that will never win in order to boost other numbers and project a 'tough on crime' persona. See: Horrible Dickhead-Sheriff Joe Arpaio (sheriffs in many places have large overlap with prosecutors' duties)