[mothballed]

Yeah this is basically a thing everywhere. I was criminally charged in a certain mid-sized town, all I did was search through the court records to find the lawyer who always gets the charges dropped, hired them, and they went away for me too. Unfortunately that's the way the just us system works.

[arcanemachiner]

That might actually be a pretty genius strategy.

[seg_lol]

Spoiler, that attorney supplies the list of people to charge.

[neaden]

Well what you're describing could just be finding the most skilled lawyer in town. What the other person is describing is bribery and nepotism.

[mothballed]

Maybe Brad Bondi is the most skilled lawyer in town. It's certainly not in the interest of the clients to have any material knowledge otherwise, nor for it to be revealed to them.

[Eisenstein]

It is, however, in the interest of the American public not to have a corrupt justice system. Thus, we should not rely on far fetched assumptions instead of investigating corruption where it appears.

[rubyfan]

The lack of the later leads to the former.

[pc86]

It likely is nepotism (and maybe bribery depending on your definition, but very unlikely to meet the legal bar of bribery), but I'm not sure what about the GP's comment makes it so obviously clear to you that it is both of those things.

[adgjlsfhk1]

is it doesn't meet the legal bar for bribery, it's only because the supreme Court has made most forms of bribary legal (presumably to prevent Thomas from being arrested for taking lots of bribes)