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by zoowar 4898 days ago
Another way to look at it is that district attorneys are doing their job and only prosecuting cases with solid evidence to back them up.
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... and also making sure a certain percentage of innocent people end up in jail because they use the maximum sentence threat to squeeze out plea bargains from innocent people.

Their job is justice and the truth first, not prosecution at any cost and willfully ignorant of the facts or willfully uninterested in the facts. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way they started doing the latter erroneously equating with it being the correct path towards the former.

Agreed, plea bargains should be based on charges, not sentences.