[longtermmemmory]

No, the prosecutor may not have to prosecute. But the prosecutor is obligated to be consitent.

There is no need to respect prosecutorial discretion because this case exposes it as completly subjective. The extra investigators, the extra resources, the extra effort. The prosecutor's zeal in this matter has discredited all thier efforts.

Discretion is also tempered with politics. A DUI arrest will be charged and tried in the absense of a plea. Never dropped. Prosecutors have desire to loose a poor case to a jury than to release anyone and risk political fallout.

The present situation is a charge by information not by arrest. Roy Black's public statements of legitimate reason for the pills suggests that he has an expert or two lined up to testify about the pill use, it suggests the doctors knew of each other.

Rush has not given anything to date. Remember, we have no controlled purchases by the police. Organizing a controlled purchase of a the alleged user is standard. If they had substantive proof of doctor shopping they would have arrested rush at the time his perscription was filled. They would have had a search of his home and confiscated the stockpile of pills. They have nothng. they had nothing. It is not groupies, it is knowing how the FL system works and how palm beach works specifically.

[RS]

"If they had substantive proof of doctor shopping they would have arrested rush at the time his perscription was filled."

Time line problem again - they didn't even look at his records until after the Enquirer article hit, and Rush purchase records ended just days before it hit.

( HHmmm?
Wonder if Rush was given a headsup to the Enquirer article ?
Wonder what his purchase records look like AFTER it hit, before he went to rehab ? )

[ClintonBeGone]

There is no need to respect prosecutorial discretion because this case exposes it as completly subjective.

Isn't discretion USUALLY subjective?