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That’s great, really. But I still find it a bit ironic for federal prosecutors to take a stand on refusing to admit something they don’t want to admit, when that’s what they force most of the people they prosecute to do. Plea or rot in jail is their go-to strategy...
Still the right decision, but these are not heroes…just people who made the right call for a change.
Well, the system is that they go hard after convictions, and there's a counterbalancing force on the other side that goes hard after acquittals. It's not really a wrong system, it is the best design we've come up with. There are horrible inequities in how it gets applied, but it's mostly a matter of (1) laws getting made in a way that perverts justice on behalf of the rich (2) the prosecution getting the full resources it needs to go hard in 100% of cases, and the defense only getting those resources if the client is wealthy and otherwise "lol good luck sucker."
I don't think you can blame the prosecutors for doing their jobs (assuming they're not breaking the rules in how they do it) under that system.
I think I can, too. This smacks of "just following orders," or "just playing the game." They knowingly and deliberately screw people for no good reason.
It does occasionally happen that people get accused of a crime because they, in fact, committed a crime. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Peter Navarro, Charles Manson, all those school shooters, the guy that broke into your car last year, drunk drivers, wife-beaters, a lot of people go through the court system because they in fact did do something wrong.
Without a system where a defense lawyer could argue vigorously to try to prove their innocence, no one who knowingly and deliberately got screwed for no good reason would have a chance to prove their innocence. Without someone on the other side trying to prove their guilt, it wouldn't work either. Again, I do think there are huge injustices built in to our current "justice" system, I actually completely agree with you on that. I just think that prosecutors doing their job isn't one of them.