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A comment on Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013).

Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by selimthegrim on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:29PM (#29573765)
Tarek Mehanna, whose prosecution was her other brainchild, suffered one of the most shameful miscarriages of justice in my lifetime, including Guantanamo.

Note: I don’t think he’s a good person or innocent. He would execute me in five seconds flat because of the sect my parents belonged to. But they could have tried him for legitimate incitement to murder, not what they railroaded him on.

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Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by defterGoose on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:53PM (#29573935)
It definitely does seem that prosecutors (at least as portrayed in fiction) make these character judgements that lead them to formulate prosecutions not on the basis of "this person committed this crime, can we get [them] for it", but rather "this person is a bad apple, what can we get them on?"
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Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by Turing_Machine on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:55PM (#29573947)
> rather "this person is a bad apple, what can we get them on?"

Generally it's "I don't actually care whether this person is bad or not, as long as it gets me lots of headlines to further my career."

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