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Surely you're talking about a District Attorney deciding that an individual needs to be charged prima facie and saying he "will find a crime" right?
by pc86 2y ago
Surely you're talking about a District Attorney deciding that an individual needs to be charged prima facie and saying he "will find a crime" right?
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoI expect that's not what they were talking about, but I bet what you are talking about can happen just about anywhere.
- pc86 2y agoI'm sure it could and it's wrong everywhere.
- throwaway894345 2y agoDistrict Attorneys everywhere charge first and then prove the crime afterwards, right?
- pc86 2y agoWell typically a case is referred to them by law enforcement or a criminal complaint, then they review the evidence and decide whether or not to go to trial. It's much rarer for a DA to say they want to find crimes a particular person committed and then direct others to go find evidence for whatever they can find evidence for.
- throwaway894345 2y agoWhich DA went after a particular person without referral by law enforcement or a criminal complaint? If this was really such a breach of ethics, surely it would be trivial for the political party in question to first make a criminal complaint? It's not obvious to me that the complaint/referral matters much?