A paralegal with the New York County Attorney’s Office apparently listened to the entirety of a recorded jail call between Mangione and his attorney

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      I don’t think they’ve impanelled yet.

      More like prosecutorial misconduct. But there was an article saying that the prosecutor is stepping down.

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        They’re gonna try to do this one by the book as much as possible to get a conviction. Ironic that they’re finally following rules.

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    Feelings aside about what Mangione did, it seems like this shouldn’t be that challenging of a case. It’s impressive they’re managing to fuck it up this badly.

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      I strongly suspect they fuck up every case as badly. It’s just that the vast majority of them aren’t so high profile, so nobody’s looking at them under a microscope and we don’t hear about it. Injustice is rampant all throughout the prosecutorial system, the odds are deliberately stacked in the state/government’s favor and against the accused, and the notion that anyone gets a fair trial in this day and age is laughably naive.

      The prosecution absolutely will cheat in any way they think they can get away with because they are secure in the knowledge that they will always get away with it. Nobody will bring the hammer down on them, and even if so they’ll then be forced to do what? Prosecute themselves? No one is watching the watchmen in any functional capacity. The state controls the phone systems, the prisons they’re in, the wardens keeping the inmates in, the cops who catch them, all the way down the clerks who write the paperwork. Even if someone somewhere in the chain fucks up, they’re all chums who see each other every day and they’re all on the same side. Private citizens can exert no meaningful oversight over the system whatsoever. The only thing that matters to the prosecution is that they convict, convict, convict regardless of the guilt or innocence of the accused. Ruining lives strengthening the government’s position is the point, always. Everything else is just window dressing and lip service.