Criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina
Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project
Author of Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal
More importantly, you seem to be assuming that criminal cases either can’t or shouldn’t be assessed on their individual merits
You are obviously free to form your own opinion of the case. I’m just offering my analysis
The Bolton case comes out of DMd, which as I said, is being run by a career prosecutor.
Also the FBI investigation of Bolton predates the Trump presidency
So I’m not sure I’d say he got away with it
But I certainly understand being dissatisfied with how that case was handled by Judge Cannon
But that doesn’t mean the charges should not have been brought.
To the contrary, there are good reasons to think the charges are warranted
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1) these charges came from the MD US Atty’s office—which is led by a career prosecutor
2) the investigation predates Trump taking office
3) the indictment suggests large amounts of classified material were involved
There were clear political reasons to bring that case, the underlying actions were far from egregious, and reports from the Manhattan DAs office were troubling
These facts all look really horrible, and there are many reasons to criticize this case
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Why? Prosecutors have huge power over sentencing, charging, second chances, and even immigration implications.
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We address an important error that I keep seeing in criminal justice cases about the nature of discretion papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The conventional wisdom is that the parties will always evade plea bargaining prohibitions. I'm curious whether that has been the experience in KS with this limited carveout
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