Posted on 08/23/2018 6:39:40 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
This I disagree with
You never would get any big fish if the small fish have no incentive to flip
I agree it can be greatly abused, and if the smal fish ‘flips’ with lies- THAT should be criminal and get him double his original sentence and void all previous agreements.
Dirty prosecutors who COERCE a ‘flip’ they know to be false should be jailed too- for a long long time.
If Cohen can’t give Mueller something significant, he might ought to watch his back...
It would not surprise me if he met the fate of Seth Rich...
Be killed and the murder blamed on the Trump Administration...
Like summary executions, they are effective against everyone.
In other words, they are the tools of reigns of terror by unethical prosecutors.
Mueller and Flynn is but the most recent high-profile example. Flynn was guilty of nothing, but chose to plead guilty instead of incurring ruinous financial penalties and staring at a grossly disproportionate sentence for a non-crime.
It’s hard to interpret it any other way.
Is Jeff Sessions a plant?
So you would let those higher up the chain, the more dangerous criminals, go free just to ensure the underlngs go to jail?
Deep state nothing. Your local policing agencies do similar things.
Flipping has built the careers of far too many prosecutors who could not actually convict anyone with evidence if their life depended on it.
I am waiting for Sessions to flip.
“almost ought to be illegal.”?
Almost? It is either illegal or it is not :-)
yeah, that’s one interpretation. Two guys are guilty and he wants to change a system which brought the Italian mafia to it’s knees and thousands of other gang and drug leaders. Plus great timing. He’s in deep do do because now he can no longer fire Mueller the republicans in congress will bail en masse. Making America Gag Again
But gee, if they couldn’t do that, then they would have to, like, actually gather evidence to prove a crime! The Feds might not get a 95% conviction rate!!!
and trump follows Mueller through the rabbit hole and now he’s too far in to go back. Have nice fall.
Helps too if you're not banging whores, and then paying them off.
The payoff part is the killer.
That’s true, but it may be the case that we have just traded a criminal mafia for a legal mafia by embracing these tactics to the degree that we have.
you are willing to take away an essential part of the criminal justice system and let crime big wheels go free because trump didn’t have the balls to fire mueller and now he is in pickle.
The problem with our justice system that these cases illustrate is that we have a situation where nearly anyone can be shown to have violated the law in some way. Taxes, campaign laws, etc. Then you leave it up to the “justice’ system to decide who among them will go to jail and who stays free. And they decide that arbitrarily and capriciously. It’s tyranny of the bureaucracy.
Where did I say that?
It’s the exact opposite of almost legal.
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