It is worse than worrisome in my opinion. I don’t like Federal courts or prosecutors. Many or most will do anything for a win to preserver their ninety five percent conviction rate. Justice and Federal Court somehow don’t seem very compatible. They are experts in character assassination and live in the negative. Recently attended a Fed Court sentencing where an 83 year old was sentenced to 12 years. In his condition it is a life sentence. He could have been sentenced to the minimum 5 years, but the judge had to make an example of him. He did not deserve anything beyond 5 in my opinion, but who am I.
I used to enjoy the original Law and Order show but at some point they began to run the same plot in various perambulations: there’s a crime, cops know who did it but there’s no evidence, DA McCoy figures out some way to railroad the guy for something unrelated that he didn’t do and get him sent away for life. We were all supposed to shout “yeah! That shows him! Justice!” But instead I was just upset that they were glorifying that the system can put anyone that they want to away for some trumped up reason. When I see it in real life, even for a bad guy, it upsets me. Feels like we’ve gone from “better that 100 guilty men go free than an innocent man lose his liberty” to “whatever it takes, however long, rest assured that we’ll find a way to get you”.