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A good thought for a New Years resolution.
Change prosecutors incentive to convict at all costs.
Prosecutors are gunslingers and a conviction is a notch on their pistol.
Innocent people stay in jail and plead guilty for a plea deal because there is a penalty for going to trial.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/grandma-cotton-candy-imprisoned-tests/
Grandmother jailed for cotton candy (https://youtu.be/cAV9Lp-s2qE)
ChefJayTay
11-27-2018, 07:38 AM
This is a horrid resolution.
You act like the prosecutor should have known better... When the prosecutor wasn't even involved in the case.
This story makes no mention of a prosecutor or district attorney.
The police tested her, and the judge set her bond at 1million. The test likely came through before she even saw a courtroom (3 months in jail or not). She was not convicted (so I'm unsure how the prosecutor got a conviction).
If anything this is a suggestion for better meth tests, police that know blue meth is a tv thing, and better laws in the first place.
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Prosecutor takes the information to a grand jury to establish charges to jail someone and request the rate of bail. There is where something can be changed. If Law enforcement had to pay part of costs of jailing someone a little more discretion would be applied. Are you saying that innocent people don't get convicted or that a prosecutor who can convict an innocent person might be a plus on their resume to some law firms?
This is a horrid resolution....
ChefJayTay
11-27-2018, 10:11 AM
There was no grand jury either.
The lady probably showed up in front of a judge, likely by video monitor from jail, and told she's stuck in there unless she posts bond. Which at that point... she was a woman who police tested positive for holding meth (was the prosecutor psychic?).
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Ok true, no grand jury but a prosecutor is still involved at that point. This is where you see a different Justice being determined by how much money you have.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/negotiating-before-the-arraignment.html
First, in most parts of the country, intake prosecutors (not the police) are supposed to analyze cases to make sure that there is evidence of guilt and that prosecution is in the interests of justice....
Defendants who hire private counsel before arraignment have a chance to derail the case