“Prosecutors will always press new laws to their most absurd limits. It is in their blood. They cannot help themselves.”
Yes, if they think it can help their careers. Which is the case, for the most part, with a lot of the people they go after. Even if they’re innocent, the public loves to see guilty-esque people suffer. No one likes gang-bangers, greedy businessmen, or (in the instance of the Duke lacrosse players) frat boys. But poor mothers, who just lost a baby? That’ll never be an attractive target. Unless you can make them out to be monsters, like Andrea Yates or Susan Smith. But if you could do that, then you’d have convincing evidence, it wouldn’t be controversial, and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
By the way, even if prosecutors go hog-wild (and I don’t see why they would; people who think it’s in their blood to stretch every crime to its limit are prejudiced by seeing them stretch certain crimes to their limits, crimes which usually just happen to be popular to pursue), we still have trials. Seems a lot of people on this thread have forgotten about the existence of trials.