A common complaint about prosecutors is that they "over charge." This can mean that they charge crimes they can't necessarily prove in trial or they charge more defendants with more crimes. It's done to gain leverage in plea deals. The hope is that the defendant will plead to the lesser crimes in exchange for dropping the others and avoi…
A common complaint about prosecutors is that they "over charge." This can mean that they charge crimes they can't necessarily prove in trial or they charge more defendants with more crimes. It's done to gain leverage in plea deals. The hope is that the defendant will plead to the lesser crimes in exchange for dropping the others and avoiding trial. It can serve to make the prosecutor look good...a good conviction rate or a good plea deal rate. Those two are usually the motives. To give a romantic partner more hours to charge...eh?
Ben Wittes mentioned to Charlie Sykes in a podcast that this whole thing echoes the old "FBI agents in love" plotting the Russia, Russia, Russia thing against Trump. It strikes me as a sideshow to cast doubt on the whole case and to get people to talk about salacious things rather than legal things when the case is discussed.
A common complaint about prosecutors is that they "over charge." This can mean that they charge crimes they can't necessarily prove in trial or they charge more defendants with more crimes. It's done to gain leverage in plea deals. The hope is that the defendant will plead to the lesser crimes in exchange for dropping the others and avoiding trial. It can serve to make the prosecutor look good...a good conviction rate or a good plea deal rate. Those two are usually the motives. To give a romantic partner more hours to charge...eh?
Ben Wittes mentioned to Charlie Sykes in a podcast that this whole thing echoes the old "FBI agents in love" plotting the Russia, Russia, Russia thing against Trump. It strikes me as a sideshow to cast doubt on the whole case and to get people to talk about salacious things rather than legal things when the case is discussed.