Damn this fucking prosecutor WHO MADE SUCH A DEAL
lawandcrime.com/crime/judge-al…
lawandcrime.com/crime/judge-al…
Notice how the headline blames the judge. The judge is wrong to accept the deal, but judges usually accept deals. The deal was made by prosecutors.
This is a recurring mistake made by the media probably because prosecutors do press releases and judges don't. They take the release at face value and don't pay attention to how the prosecutors shift blame to the judge.
Remember that truck driver in CO who got 120 plus years for an accident? Well, that was because some prosecutor charged him with 27 crimes for one accident. The judge was constrained by minimum sentences. It was the prosecutor, not the judge, who piled on 27 sentences.
And in the stories, the prosecutor expressed shock and how this was excessive and should be addressed with a pardon, etc. But the excessive quality was put in place by the prosecutor's decision to charge 27 felonies
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