The poison is that prosecutors have UNLIMITED $$$. When an OJ or Woody Allen has the ability to match them, everyone gets upset. But when the government has a bad case, but charges a poor guy with crimes that will add up to life, they settle for lesser charges even if they're innocent.
Woody Allen is a jerk & sexually weird. But the case against him was bogus. The fact that he fought back pretty much ended the child abuse witch hunts. If he was poor, he'd have been railroaded.
Yep. It’s a completely one-sided system that favors the criminal justice system when one of the values of the criminal justice system is that justice is supposedly blind. But if you lose cases or don’t get plea downs as prosecutors you won’t have a career.
It’s totally bullshit.