(November 25, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I don't recall suggesting anything of the sort.
And perhaps you don't know this, but I'm not a big fan of entertaining hypothetical questions based on conditionals that neither of us is in position to know jack shit about.
To indirectly answer your question, of course a prosecutor shouldn't indict to appease the mob. The flip side of that coin is that they also shouldn't let bad cops off the hook.(*)
(*) I have no idea whether this is the case here. FWIW, I'm undecided as to how I feel about the case. What I am not undecided about is the way that prosecutors can manipulate grand juries to get the outcome they want, for good or ill reason. You seem to be wont to ignore the latter possibility.
I agree with you that the Grand Jury process can be manipulated by the prosecutor.....but pretty much any process can be manipulated.
