So going to trial rather than avoiding one SAVES money??? Bull#hit. And what about the money that really counts, ours? This law helps prevent the system from intimidating someone into pleading to something he shouldn't have to because he's not up to mounting a defense. Avoiding a trial adds to expense, please. You know these idiots are scraping the bottom of the barrel now when they have to trot out stupidity like that.
Consider what happens with lazy do nothing prosecutors. These are easy cases for them to make. One person shot and they can intimidate via the 10-20-life laws.
Prosecutors have a terrifying scare and intimidation weapon.
Perhaps we need term limits for all prosecutors. No more than 6 or 8 years at any level of prosecution. No more than 4 as an elected prosecutor.
Exactly.
The only “critics of the law” are the ambulance chasers that no longer get a big payday every time someone uses deadly force to defend themselves.
Of course SYG gets used for every case. This is like lawyers bitching every mugging being called an “assault.”
Keeping the parasites from making money off crime victims is what the law was written for.