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« on: October 12, 2010, 01:06:47 PM » |
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One of the reasons we elect, not appoint DAs in most places is because we give them discretion as to whether and when to bring charges. For a DA, doing justice doesn't mean indicting everyone who might be guilty, but bringing cases against people, who in his or her judgment, are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Buck was absolutely right that in this case, it was going to be near impossible to get a conviction. And that the Boulder County DA, hardly a redneck jurisdiction, agreed with his decision not to prosecute bolsters his decision here.
To those seeking to politicize justice, a DA running for another public office is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Had Buck prosecuted this case and lost, the fact that he railroaded someone who was found not guilty could equally have been raised by his opponent - as some of Coakley's prosecutorial decisions were in Massachusetts.
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