What bigger issue were you thinking of? The odds will be good that whatever you come up with, there will be a "bigger" one that you're not thinking of.
It's turtles all the way down. Choose your turtle carefully.
It's turtles all the way down. Choose your turtle carefully.
The discretion I was talking about is where they can choose to charge one person and not another. This leads to implicit and explicit bias. It also undermines the integrity of the system. Why should I trust a system that can ruin my life with a charge and let a similar offense go with someone else? Equal protection and application of the law should be required.