If prosecutors can ensure that a strong defense is impossible simply by accusing someone of an appropriately heinous crime, then the criminal justice system has failed. Please don't be complicit in that.
If prosecutors can ensure that a strong defense is impossible simply by accusing someone of an appropriately heinous crime, then the criminal justice system has failed. Please don't be complicit in that.
My other fear is that what happens when, with access to the facts or judicial procedure, I determine that the defendant actually is guilty.
Please don't be complicit in that.
We'll see.
And when you determine that the defendant is innocent?
If you were falsely accused of the same crime, what would you think of someone who acts as you're proposing?
If they are guilty, it may help convict them, but if they are innocent, it may help exonerate them.
Regardlessly, bring Truth to the proceedings and leave your biases and opinions (valid or not) outside.