{"id":119,"date":"2009-05-09T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-05-09T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T14:17:08","slug":"all-the-more-reason-not-to-cop-a-quick-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"All the more reason not to cop a quick plea &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/09\/us\/09tradeoffs.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Money Shortage Forces Cut in Cases to Be Prosecuted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a &#8220;crisis&#8221; 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 &#8220;crimes&#8221; without victims (including felonies such as drug dealing) before they cut crimes with victims (including misdemeanors such as simple assault).<\/p>\n<p>Funny though how <em>federal<\/em> prosecutors never seem to be short on cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: Money Shortage Forces Cut in Cases to Be Prosecuted. This is a &#8220;crisis&#8221; 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 &#8220;crimes&#8221; without victims (including felonies such as drug dealing) before they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}