All the more reason not to cop a quick plea …
From the New York Times: Money Shortage Forces Cut in Cases to Be Prosecuted.
This is a “crisis” defense attorneys should want to encourage, and one would hope that district attorneys should realize that their duty to the public requires that they first cut “crimes” without victims (including felonies such as drug dealing) before they cut crimes with victims (including misdemeanors such as simple assault).
Funny though how federal prosecutors never seem to be short on cash.
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Mr. K., Great blog. My aka is NoMoreNoloContendere on numerous blogs, due to being a victim of the Texas system in the 1984 where the Harris County DA had a motto “get a conviction at all cost”
1They did & still use taxpayers money to falsely arrest, sneek in to the grand jury and obtain charges, pick a jury, set about 6 trial dates. Then on the first day of trial (at recess) proceed to scare the shit out the poor dumb defendant by having his / her paid attorney say guilty or not if you don’t take the 10 yrs. for agg rob w/ deadly weapon you could get 99yrs. I say ditch the middle of the road chicken shit No Contest choice and make all of the lawyers / attorneys work for a living and defend them all and let God sort em out. Q. What is it gonna take to get it taken out of the game you all play coast to coast?