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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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