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Some cases just need to be tried.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

In what way is our payment of taxes for the salaries of uncaring and unjust prosecutors any different from Kevin Bacon's imploring "Please sir, may I have another [whack on the butt]" in Animal House? Too often, prosecutors refuse to hear from my witnesses to help them assess whether to prosecute a case, or whether to move closer to narrowing the settlement negotiations gap. Some prosecutors relent when I remind them that their obligation is to seek the truth and justice, rather than seeking a conviction and stiff sentence. Some do not.  Today, a prosecutor cut me off in my ten-word sentence to offer community service to inactivate a theft case, in response to his guilty plea offer. He insisted this would be a trial or a guilty plea...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).