AI
Friday, February 08, 2002 6:03:03 PM
Dan,
I've been following this story since you first presented it. It appears to me to be a case of Prosecutoral Extortion. Wherein prosecutors inflate the charge to the most heinous available, with the idea of plea barganing to a more realistic charge. They do this when they "need" a conviction. It is fairly common practice to "browbeat" defendants into accepting a plea when, if they had been charged correctly in the first place, they might have been found Not Guilty of what they end up pleading to.
IMHO, this is a travesty of the justice system.
BTW, I am not saying that the FAFC in this case did nothing wrong. But manslaughter? give me a break.
The Bird of Prey
I've been following this story since you first presented it. It appears to me to be a case of Prosecutoral Extortion. Wherein prosecutors inflate the charge to the most heinous available, with the idea of plea barganing to a more realistic charge. They do this when they "need" a conviction. It is fairly common practice to "browbeat" defendants into accepting a plea when, if they had been charged correctly in the first place, they might have been found Not Guilty of what they end up pleading to.
IMHO, this is a travesty of the justice system.
BTW, I am not saying that the FAFC in this case did nothing wrong. But manslaughter? give me a break.
The Bird of Prey
The Bird of Prey
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