08-09-2023, 11:00 PM
(08-09-2023, 10:34 PM)pally Wrote: Public Defenders understand how the criminal justice system works just as well as career prosecutors. They understand exactly what it takes to get a conviction and what holes a good defense lawyer can punch into a prosecution's case.
Public defenders job is to do everything they can to free their client, guilty or not. That's the literal definition of their job. If you''re fine with that then you have zero business being a prosecutor, and the results of back this up.
Quote:This whole thing strikes me as a politically motivated "look tough on crime" thing. DeSantis's presidential campaign is struggling, he just fired his campaign manager. he's getting complaints he is spending more time campaigning than governing...and suddenly he does this. Call me a cynic but he did this for the publicity.
His campaign has nothing to do with the logic of the move. Defense attorneys can, and should, be eligible to be a judge, just the same as a prosecutor. What they should never be is a head prosecutor. I know it's easy for you to argue from your position of having nothing to do with the fallout of them being in such a position. But I don't have the text space here to go into detail about the anguish I've dealt with from victims and their families from them being run roughshod by a "progressive" DA, and the kid glove treatment of their victimizers, over the past three plus years. I've literally seen a rape victim projectile vomit after learning about the lenient plea bargain her rapist got from Gascon. So spare me your sanctimony.
