Klobuchar insisted on him remaining incarcerated after he was granted new trial. He remained incarcerated preceding & during second trial.
And he was re-convicted. Based on the seriousness of the charges, it would be standard to remain incarcerated. Did you have a point?
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Yes. I made it.
And what did you think it was?
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I didn’t play dumb. BLM is not a structured organization that can be influenced en masse. In addition that claim was being used to suggest we should be skeptical of this protest. There is 0 reason to think these protesters went after Klobuchar’s event because of Putin.
Have you ever been a prosecutor? Have you worked in a busy prosecutor’s office? Do you know how her office functioned with respect to this case? Do you know how many cases her office handled in a single year? Do you know what the administrative structure of her office was? Do you know whether she was aware at the time of the circumstances of the case?
Do you realize that her successor as prosecutor re-tried the case, also to a conviction?
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Have you ever been a prosecutor? Have you worked in a busy prosecutor’s office? Do you know how her office functioned with respect to this case? Do you know how many cases her office handled in a single year? Do you know what the administrative structure of her office was? Do you know whether she was aware at the time of the circumstances of the case?
Do you realize that her successor as prosecutor re-tried the case, also to a conviction?
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No. No. Somewhat. No.no.yes.
Yes.
I have a friend in a public defender’s office, and he talks about prosecutors as a conviction machine. They have all the assets they need to convince people to plead guilty, jail them interminably if they don’t, use jailhouse informants, put a variety of witnesses on the stand, and threaten them with perjury if they don’t follow the case as the prosecutor tells them to. In the meantime he usually gets 20-30 minutes with the defendant, and the office splits one part-time investigator among 10 attorneys.
I dream of the day when every major case, especially the ones being hyped in the media, has a resident skeptic who reviews everything for the inconsistencies that might point out bad police work (ahem, Central Park Five), prosecutorial malpractice (ahem, Doug Flowers, or bad science masquerading as settled.
I also dream of unicorn farts smelling like cotton candy.
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Even more remarkable is just how stubborn prosecutors are. Post-conviction, there can be DNA evidence that the defendant didn’t do it, there can be video showing someone else committing the crime, there can be the Pope swearing on a Bible that the defendant was with him at the time the crime was committed. The prosecutor will still confidently declare, “We are satisfied that we convicted the right person.” A complete inability to admit error seems to be part of the prosecutor’s required personality.
This seems like an odd case for anti-prosecutor folks to hang their hat on. Are you saying that a convicted murderer awaiting re-trail (which, by the way, also resulted in a murder conviction) should be set free while awaiting the second trial? Why on earth should that happen? It’s strange the cases that people latch onto without knowing anything about them.
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That points to a hit piece on Klobuchar as suggested by someone above.
Henry Wade in Texas said, “any prosecutor could convict a guilty man, but … it takes a real pro to convict an innocent man.”