Most non-lawyers don’t understand plea deals at all.

When you get to the more successful criminals, the ones who’ve done well enough to afford a private lawyer, in most cases, the only issue is the suppression of evidence motion. The cops know who all the serious criminals are, and what they do. Besides which, in spite of all the detective shows, only about 1/3 of crimes are solved — those that are solved, which isn’t all that many — by detective work. For the remaining crimes, the victim or witnesses know the defendant, or the defendant is arrested for another crime and they match his fingerprints (now his DNA, much easier) with evidence from the former crime scene.

The reason the suppression motion is so important is because of the ridiculous doctrine that “if the constable erred, the criminal must go free.” Not only is this morally unjustifiable — what does one thing have to do with the other? — it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, deter police misconduct. Cops are not evaluated on the number of successful prosecutions of their collars, but on the number of cases they “clear,” which means, arrest the person that they believe, based on cop standards of proof, was the person who did the crime. That’s why virtually all DA’s offices have their own investigators, to get from “arrested” to “triable.”

When you get to the top-level criminals, with the top-level lawyers, no DA’s staff wants to go up against really good lawyers. They tell you in law school that the adversary system is the greatest engine for the discovery of truth ever devised. The reality is the adversary system is the greatest engine for discovering who has the better lawyer ever devised.

The much-vaunted U.S. Attorneys’ 95+% conviction rate is because they only take to trial those cases they’re pretty damn sure they’re going to win. You can bet that nobody in Acosta’s office thought it would be a good idea to go up against Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, and the rest of Epstein’s legal team. Remember the OJ case? So Acosta made the best deal he could without going to trial.

Is that right? Is that good for society? Hell, no! But that’s the way it is, and that’s why I never, ever, got involved in criminal law.

(Sorry about the rant — it’s something I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for 42 years.)

The only person whose decisions cannot be criticized are those who avoid making a decision. I fear that we are creating an atmosphere in which every professional in government will be afraid to make a decision. This is a recipe for organizational and societal paralysis.

Yes.

“As well as the child sacrifice satanists at the upper echelons.”

Really? Where do you get this … nonsense from?

In years to come, anyone learning about the Jeffrey Epstein case will ask: Why didn’t anybody raise the alarm? “What is so amazing to me is how his entire social circle knew about this and just blithely overlooked it,” the journalist Vicky Ward, who profiled him for Vanity Fair, told the New York Times. “All mentioned the girls, as an aside.” Epstein’s acts had deep cultural roots. But things don’t always stay the same, or get worse. Sometimes attitudes take a turn for the conservative. We should be grateful that standards have evolved in the right direction. The next Epstein or Roman Polanski will have considerably more difficulty getting people to shrug off their deeds, much less join in a standing ovation.

Based on past form of the human race, I wouldn’t bet on that last sentence having any predictive value.

Four: After Epstein was labeled a “Level 3 sex offender” — meaning the worst — Epstein was required by law to check in with the NYPD every 90 days. He never checked in at all over an eight-year span. How did that not generate any consequences?

Five: How did his private island off Saint Thomas get the nickname “Pedophile Island” and how does a rumor like that not get law enforcement to start snooping around?

No doubt that basic sanitation; potable water and treatment of sewage are also a conspiracy too. Deep State is everywhere after all.

Also, the special vaccine liability courts weren’t a Clinton thing but a Reagan move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act

As well as the child sacrifice satanists at the upper echelons.

Kill off every Clinton in existence, and guess what, the Deep State hasn’t lost even 1% of their strategic assets.

What also resulted from that is that when American serfs have their children become autistic or dead as a result of enforced vaccination or even uninformed vaccinations, they have about as good a chance of suing the government as conservatives have of suing the IRS into submission.