I am not a sports fan. Anyway, one day I was at a social gathering and a guy was really distressed because his team kept losing.
I said, "Why not just like a different team?" (I thought this was logical)
There was an uproar among sports fans.
Anyway, it's so much better to be rooting for the prosecution. They win so much more.
Did you know federal prosecutors have better than a 95% conviction rate?
@Teri_Kanefield Don’t prosecutors have the leeway to pick and choose cases they feel they are likely to win? Do prosecutor offices allow “Hail Mary” cases?
@geekyonion More critically, prosecutors have the leeway to pick and choose cases based on basically any reasoning or motivation they would like, for example as response to political winds even if they know the case is weak or even outright false.
That's a huge part of the system, that the courts are independent of the prosecutor because we don't rely on prosecutors to only prosecute fairly and effectively.
To be sure, part of the picture is that if a prosecutor is doing the wrong thing they can be disciplined for that, but even there the definition of the wrong thing isn't so clear as just win/loss ratios. It ends up being subjective and political.
So in the end yes, prosecutors have a lot of leeway, and they may consider all sorts of factors ranging from the strength of the case through the expense of the prosecution through the chances of being disciplined for how they approach the case after the fact.
