Editing Blog/2024-07-02/Imaginary Heroes (section)

== Federal Prosecutors ==

[[File:Reddit Screenshot - Federal Prosecutors.png|thumb|The theory of federal prosecutors]]

Federal prosecutors are similarly supposed to be incredible hard-asses. They're tough no-nonsense guys who will get the bad guys off the streets and keep us safe. Or so the story goes. But what is the truth? Something less so. In fact, the US Attorney prosecuting was so soft that the federal judge told him off for being too soft.

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U.S. District Judge James Donato approved the deal, but criticized U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey for failing to charge Low with a felony. The judge said he had reviewed previous federal DUI cases and did “not see a single California case where a drunk driving incident that resulted in a death was ever charged as a misdemeanor.”

“There is nothing I can do … though — and this is one of the rare times I have felt this — I believe one of the only times in my ten years on the bench, I have felt that the charging decision is a grave injustice and does not serve the public interest,” the judge said, according to court documents. “My hands are tied,” he later said, noting that prosecutors, not judges, have “sole discretion” over charging decisions. 
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It appears, if I'm being honest, that it is not true that they "don't fuck around". It appears, instead, that they fuck around a lot and the reputation is undeserved.

Or perhaps more likely, they don't fuck around on some people and they do fuck around on others. Without a doubt, if it came out during some trial that I had written a blog post like this, I'm sure they "don't fuck around". On the other hand, if I were adequately drunk when killing people, they do "fuck around". A matter of fitting the reaction to the crime, one must assume.

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