[sig226]

That's not particularly satisfying, at least not to me. The suckers taxpayers of Wenatchee didn't do it. Some political hack did it in their name. To my knowledge, nothing came out of the cases in New Jersey, California, and Massachusetts. Well, Coakley did become the state Attorney General and might win the senate seat.

[wendy1946]

I could tell you what the real answer is but I don’t know how many people would want to hear about it. We need to get rid of the job of DA and the entire “adversarial” system of justice altogether and go to what the French call an “inquisitorial” system in which the only incentive which anybody in the picture has is to figure out what happened. In a rational world, NOBODY would have any sort of money or career incentive to put people in prison.