Posted on 09/09/2022 4:19:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A proposed law penalizing ambitious wokester prosecutors from prosecuting junk cases, such as happened to Kyle Rittenhouse, is worthy of promoting.
A prosecutor who uses his or her authority to virtue signal to the public to advance his or her political career is more dangerous to society than all but the most violent criminals.
Insurance will cover many forms of property crimes, and you can legally use deadly force against somebody who menaces you with death or serious bodily injury.
A prosecutor, though, can bankrupt most people by filing unfounded criminal charges against them, ruin their lives with prison time and criminal records. Unless the case is particularly egregious like that of Mike Nifong (D-NC), or with crooked judges like Mark Ciavarella (D-PA, a.k.a., federal inmate #15008-067) or Mike Conahan (D-PA, home arrest), there is little or no recourse against these "jurists."
To put this in perspective, Pennsylvania attorney Frank Fina was suspended from the practice of law for his role in convicting Penn State President Graham Spanier of putting children at risk. Pennsylvania's current Attorney General, and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro (D-PA), worked hard to reinstate Spanier's conviction while tweeting that Spanier had been told that Jerry Sandusky was sexually assaulting children on the Penn State campus. The witness, Mike McQueary, testified, however, under oath, that he did not see Sandusky do anything he deemed reportable to police while his father and a family friend, both of whom are mandated by law to report abuse, did not encourage him to report to child protective authorities whatever he thought he might have possibly heard.
I believe that Shapiro, like Scott Harshbarger (D-MA) and Martha Coakley (D-MA) who ruined the lives of the Amiraults, used his position to "virtue signal" his concern for the children prior to the election.
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Many of these are just legalized assault by the left.
Bkmk
Scott Harshbarger, along with help from Mitt Romney, is the one who fashioned the current MA ‘assault’ weapons ban...after the federal statute sunsetted.
Another law that should be considered is to charge judges and Prosecutors with a crime if they have allowed a defendant to plead down to insignificant time for major crimes, and/or to allow insignificant or no bail on major offenders, who then murder or maim others while on early release or bail. Call it the “Woke” responsibility bill.
And who is going to prosecute this locally?
And the definitions are moving targets.
It’s a nice thought, but this is why there are wrongful prosecution lawsuits.
Prosecution of the charges on Rittenhouse had to go through the grand jury process. That group is supposed to act as a speed bump against out of line prosecutors. They are presented prosecution evidence and they determine if probable cause had been established.
So, you are going against law that has been in place for more than 300 years and which is the basis for all serious criminal prosecution in our nation.
Good luck with that.
So, what do you do against wrongful prosecution except do “turnabout is fair play”?
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