If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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Criminals don't care what the law is.
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
Law and justice are not always the same.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!