The Feds and local police Flip drug defendants all the time to get the dealers up the supply chain, they even flip people that were involved in murder or terrorist plots.
And at the end of the day, the flippers go free.
It is high time that we make flipping defenders against the law.
So should violating attorney client privilege
Where’s the ABA and State Bars on that?
LOL!
Flipping is nothing but LEGAL EXTORTION!
“You tell us what we want you to hear or you will spend the rest of your life in prison.” That is absolute EXTORTION!
Flipping = Torturing until a confession
It is high time that we make flipping defenders against the law.
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It should be. Prosecutors should have to earn their money. We shouldn’t be providing defendants with motivation to lie. If they’re not honorable enough to tell the truth without having to stike a deal, I don’t want their testimony.
Trump must be sweating to make this defensive statement
That and prosecutors will charge you with a ridiculous number of offenses, sometimes hundreds, that if the sentences run consecutively, can put you away forever for relatively minor offenses but if you plead guilty to these one or two, we will cut your time and you serve concurrently or sometimes they say they will have to investigate your wife or mother because you called them during the crime period but if you plead...
I do not put a lot of stock in plea deal and something like 90 percent of all cases are pled out.
You do realize that your headline and the quotation in the text don’t say the same thing. Flipping “ought to be illegal” and flipping “almost ought to be illegal” are not equivalent. It’s like leaving a “not” out of a statement to change its meaning 180 degrees. This might not be a 180 degree shift but “almost” is a very significant word which suggests that making it illegal wasn’t what was being said.
(I need another cup of coffee!) :-)
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.
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?
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 :-)
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.
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It already is illegal. Its called Perjury!
And Mueller subborned Cohen’s perjury.
Prosecute both of them.
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