But who's supposed to watch over them? They are ultimately elected officials (usually), and any sort of oversight committee would need to be run by other people, who could be just as bad. And the justice system needs the DA's able to use discretion in who they prosecute, because otherwise it would be much worse in the other direction as the US overcriminalizes, and there's just not enough time in the day to prosecute everything. I don't think there's a solution other than don't elect bad people.
I want off this planet.
Gaze upon the future of the chattel slavery of our brave new world.
The trial jury. Just give the jury the option of saying "Not only is this guy innocent, it is wrongful to even to even try to prosecute him." Have this level of innocence make the Prosecutor personally liable for all of the accused court and lawyer fees, and explicitely revoke all forms of imunity has for actions taken during the investigation and charging except for Statutes of limitations and presidential pardons.
Technically the Jury already has the right to do this*, it's called Jury Nullification. Letting the prosecutor, judge, or anybody else know you're aware it's possible is the fastest way to get eliminated from jury duty, the legal system hates it when jurors throw their weight around.
No, jury nullification is something else entirely, and it isn't explicitly part of the law either. Jury nullification is the Jury ignoring the law and finding the accused innocent.
This is an interesting idea. The only problems I really see with it is that a) this only solves overprosecution, not underprosecution, b) juries are usually shielded from seeing corrupt acts of the prosecution by good defense lawyers, who get the evidence tossed from the beginning (for example, a confession given under torture would stopped from ever being even referred to by a good defense lawyer, because a juror might think that even if there was torture, the guy did confess), and c) fear of prosecuting popular defendants.
Man, look at his nose. Dude could play Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer with that.Better brace for the protests in response to this one!
Dick was sure a Dick!
You don't fuck with Dick Cheney. He fucks with you in response.
Truth is a social construct or something.
Mathematic is already, so why not the objective truth too?
