07-12-2021, 08:48 AM
There are hundreds of thousands of criminal cases each year running through thousands of of different court systems at the local, state, and federal levels. In each of those individual criminal cases, there are at least a judge and a prosecutor as two different variables in the severity of sentencing. When you have such an ubiquitous institution presiding over thousands of different versions of law, it's no surprise that one could easily find individual cases where the sentencing did not protect the general public in a manner proportional to threat of the defendant.
I can understand why some judges and prosecutors would want to avoid charging people with felonies. It permanently legally cements you as a second class citizen with less rights, in some ways forever. There have been statistical examples of these things targeting minorities the worst, for example sentencing disparities between crack and cocaine.
People generally want a restorative justice system and not a punitive one, and that has been an arduous pursuit with imperfect results.
I can understand why some judges and prosecutors would want to avoid charging people with felonies. It permanently legally cements you as a second class citizen with less rights, in some ways forever. There have been statistical examples of these things targeting minorities the worst, for example sentencing disparities between crack and cocaine.
People generally want a restorative justice system and not a punitive one, and that has been an arduous pursuit with imperfect results.
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