Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016)

Re:Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016) by csa on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:38PM (#17597950)

.... when the evidence is stacked heavily agaisnt the defendant. For more marginal cases, the offers tend to be much less punitive.

Look, I'm not a lawyer. You may want to go talk to one -- especially a public defense lawyer. Your eyes will be open about how fantastically reasonable the system usually (intentional hedge word -- not all DAs or judges are reasonable, but most are) is.

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Re:Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016) by anoncoward111 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @05:23AM (#17599327)

So every non-violent drug offender should just take their multi-year sentence to third-world-tier prisons and their felon status too and be happy with it?

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Re:Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016) by leesalminen on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:44AM (#17600912)

Pretty much. Once you’re negotiating with a DA, you’re going to jail. They’re never gonna let you go.

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Re:Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016) by anoncoward111 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:06AM (#17601108)

I suppose my comment was intended to highlight the relative absurdity of punishing non-violent drug offenses with jail time.

It quite literally creates career criminals out of non-criminals, since, once they have a crime on their record, virtually all avenues of employment are closed off to them besides violent/property crime.

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Re:Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016) by wu-ikkyu on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:54AM (#17602182)

"Fantastically reasonable" is an interesting way of describing the legal system punishing the greatest number of prisoners in the world.

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