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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
Or, alternately, where there is a minimal proof of a minor crime that carries enormous penalties so you can try to pressure the defendant into cooperating against the bigger fish.
Sorry. Just reminiscing about my criminal defense days. I had a drug case I will never forget. Such horseshit.
You are obviously right about this "rape" case. I'm the one who called it "rape," but I was talking about her perspective and I hadn't read the part about her basically not ever telling him that it wasn't okay to fuck her awake. It's not even a close call as to whether you could, or should, prosecute this.
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I sued someone years ago on a trumped up negligence theory and probably fucked up the person's career. I'm pretty pragmatic about the amorality of commerce, and the legal business in particular, and I even had the Nuremberg Defense (partner made me do it [among many other skeevy things requested]), but that one still bugs me. I hung a lead weight on an undeserving person's career, and why? Because abusing the language and law, we could do so. And for what? A few hundred grand.
I'm with you on the abuses of prosecutors. It's why I left crim work. It's the depressing cause of most people's exit from that area, I think. But the civil side? It's close second in terms of people defining right and wrong by what they can get away with, rather than what ought to be done.
