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Last month, the @HouseDemocrats impeached Donald John #Trump. When they did so, they adopted a resolution proclaiming that their impeachment was done in the name of the #HouseofRepresentatives and in the name of, and for, the United States of America.
That formula, explaining that the House impeached someone and did so in the name of the House and in the name of the United States, is common. Yet the assertion is troubling.
Half or more of the country disapproves of the House’s impeachment, and of the Senate’s trial.
Half or more of the country disapproves of the House’s impeachment, and of the Senate’s trial.
But politicians will still claim they are doing it for us.
They aren’t.
And it is particularly urgent that we repudiate the idea that the House’s 2021 #impeachment of #DonaldTrump was in our name.
They aren’t.
And it is particularly urgent that we repudiate the idea that the House’s 2021 #impeachment of #DonaldTrump was in our name.
Oh come ON!
Breaking: Michael Flynn tonight filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming the Fed Gov't have actually damaged it's arrangement w him-not the other way @. #TuesdayThoughts theunionjournal.com/mike-flynn-fil…
Breaking: Michael Flynn tonight filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming the Fed Gov't have actually damaged it's arrangement w him-not the other way @. #TuesdayThoughts theunionjournal.com/mike-flynn-fil…
2-"Powell tweeted regarding the declaring, stating, “We just filed a Motion to Withdraw the plea of @GenFlynn because the government acted in bad faith, with vindictiveness, and breached the plea agreement pursuant to which he has cooperated fully at great personal expense and
3-"“held back nothing” according to #prosecuters till … 2.
@GenFlynn rejected to LIE on need from #prosecutors in EDVA in Rafiekian situation. Van Grack took off– currently his brand-new sentencing memorandum looks for to send out #Flynn to jail” His sentencing is 1/28.
@GenFlynn rejected to LIE on need from #prosecutors in EDVA in Rafiekian situation. Van Grack took off– currently his brand-new sentencing memorandum looks for to send out #Flynn to jail” His sentencing is 1/28.
THREAD re: whether District Attorneys should be elected or appointed, responding to @JohnCun11960413, who asks in the context of #QueensDA election. #NYS is one of 46 states that elects its local state prosecutors (only NJ, Delaware, Connecticut, and RI don't). /1
Even more stark is that the United States appears to be the only country on earth where local #prosecutors are elected. /2
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As John correctly points out, before the mid-19th century, NY prosecutors were appointed by the county courts. The reason we changed to elected in 1846 might seem paradoxical today: to get some of the ill-effects of politics out of the selection of District Attorneys. /3 
THREAD re: Linda Fairstein. The outrage factory targets the former prosecutor who got rape corroboration repealed, worked to enact the rape shield law, spearheaded eliminating NYC's rape kit backlog, and spearheaded John Doe indictments of DNA profiles. /1 bit.ly/2ZfkmZj
Accepting that the five defendants in the Central Park Jogger case were wrongfully convicted - absolutely *awful* in itself - no one has come close to making the case that Linda Fairstein and Liz Lederer should be vilified the way they have been. /2
People fail to grasp that this awful fact is not evidence that either #prosecutor did anything wrong. I've said this before, but it's worth emphasizing: this is a criminal justice *system*, & it's designed to make it more likely that guilty are freed than innocent convicted. /3
THREAD: This is some of rhetoric that has ruled the day in the discovery debate - both of the very thoughtful #prosecutors quoted in the article are worried about whether witnesses will be chilled from reporting crimes... /1
... and cooperating w law enforcement if their names will be provided w/in 15 days. Hard to believe that anyone would casually dismiss that concern - even the defense advocates didn’t dismiss the concern *casually*. Yet Mr. Stengel says that their comments are “chilling.” /2
Here’s the Chief ADA from Manhattan (the former boss of Mr. @stengellaw): “Will witnesses want to come forward in the first place?” she said. “We hope it doesn’t deter victims and witnesses from coming forward and reporting a crime.” (From @janransom’s article) /3
Is County State's Attorney closing up shop re: non-violent crime? Here's statement from the #prosecutor who let #Smollett go: “We work to prioritize violent crime and the drivers of violent crime. I don’t see [him] as a threat to public safety.” 1/4
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Again, I hate criticizing #prosecutors in the exercise of their discretion, but laudable as that prioritizing is, his logic is asinine. No more fraud, perjury, cyberbullying, public corruption, car theft, hacking, identity theft prosecutions. & of course no hoax prosecutions. 2/4
All those cases should be dismissed under the logic of ASA Joe Magats. SMH. 3/4
Thread responding to the always-thoughtful @RachelBarkow. The point about "People vs." not meaning the representative of all people is clearly right, though I think @j_simonson in @thenation makes too much of a clever political slogan by @KamalaHarris. /1
But her "definition of the role" of #prosecutors as "to seek punishment and inflict harm on a regular basis" is wrong & is dismissive of all the good work that prosecutors do. /2
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As you know, the @ABAesq defines the role of a prosecutor as follows: "[t]he primary duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice within the bounds of the law, not merely to convict." Any prosecutor worth his/her salt follows that precept. /3 bit.ly/2RCxEuF
Based on this tweet, I thought a short thread on the issue of discretionary decisions by #prosecutors, particularly in terms of charging/plea bargaining/sentencing, might be useful. /1
New York State is #42 in the United States in terms of incarceration of its citizens. DAs in New York City, particularly @ManhattanDA , @BrooklynDA , and @BronxDAClark, have made great strides in the past few years to reduce that even further. This is a very good thing. /2
In Manhattan, for example, more than 100,000 cases per year were filed in the criminal courts the year I returned to the DA's office, 2010. In 2018, the number was below 50,000. /3
