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my point is you are biased in favor of career criminals and that you haven't been inside a courtroom in 30 years and your anecdotes are grossly outdated
How many of your clients were truly innocent?
edit: actually there are ways to be tough on crime without government assistance, vigilante justice
have you noticed vigilantes are prosecuted more harshly than actual criminals?
you haven't been inside a courtroom in 30 years and your anecdotes are grossly outdated.
I retired in 2019, and still appear in court a few times a year.
I'm not going to keep arguing with you. I'll just say the system is more flawed than you might imagine, and understandable questions like "how many of your clients were innocent?" aren't as simple as they seem. There's no doubt most of my clients were guilty, and they were punished fairly, usually with a plea bargain. There were some that were innocent, and it was satisfying to see them freed. What is really upsetting though is that the government rarely, if ever, will acknowledge a mistake. Either you have to get found not guilty at trial, or actual proof of innocence (usually DNA evidence) must exist. Check out the Innocence Project to see how many wrongfully convicted people have been freed by DNA evidence. Most defendants are overcharged - a trespass becomes a burglary, assaults become attempted murders. It happens every day. It is really an economic transaction- plea bargaining is like any bargain. You ask for more than you expect to get, and the other side asks for less. The two sides come to an agreement somewhere in the middle.
The Clancy case was set up to avoid any chance of a bargain, which supports @jimmysong and @justin_shocknet idea that this is a psyop. I'm not going that far.
The Clancy case was set up to avoid any chance of a bargain, which supports @jimmysong and @justin_shocknet idea that this is a psyop. I'm not going that far.
Ugh, hadn't heard the psyop point of view, and not sure if I want to
Rule 1, if every msm outlet and moms on tiktok are talking about it for weeks on end, it's a psyop.
What is your point? Your friend is all upset about the system with a 95% conviction rate that gave her a useless make work job for which she is receiving a cushy pension paid for by the taxpayers. No wonder it was the happiest day of her life. She's a bureaucratic leech. As for federal courts, I spent a lot of time in many, in front of a former US attorney general, and in front of a current Supreme Court Justice.
But I don't defend the system. I hate it. I'm more anarchist than statist. You're the one who wants to give the government more power if you're whining about the system not being tough on crime.