Perhaps you’re right. The only good thing that might come of this terrible case is a future reluctance on the part of state jurists to practice leniency toward career criminals. In the meantime, two innocent people appear to have paid a terrible price for another’s misjudgment.
That's the head-scratcher right there: Tuttman was an experienced prosecutor: she's seen cats like Tavares day in and day out. Hell, she's put that type of cat in the slammer.
Why did she get soft as a grape all of a sudden? What the hell happens to a lawyer when he or she gets appointed to the bench? Are the criminals suddenly less yucky?