Patrick’s turn.My internet dectoeitn skills must be seriously lacking, since I failed (a few months ago) where Marc Stephens succeeded. (Is that creepy? It’s not like I tried for more than a few minutes.)You California anti-SLAPP lawyers aren’t all buddy-buddy are you? On the substance, it’s kind of a dilemma, isn’t it? I mean, “any defeat” should be taken as “a humiliating rebuke” by the prosecutor, shouldn’t it, “in part because of the government’s overwhelming resources, in part because of judges’ and jurors’ tendency to defer to law enforcement, and in part because many [defendants] aren’t particularly sympathetic,” and especially because the government gets to choose what cases it prosecutes? The only fact in mitigation is that “declining to bring charges in a high-profile case can be a career killer.” Best not to be a prosecutor.
Patrick’s turn.My internet dectoeitn skills must be seriously lacking, since I failed (a few months ago) where Marc Stephens succeeded. (Is that creepy? It’s not like I tried for more than a few minutes.)You California anti-SLAPP lawyers aren’t all buddy-buddy are you? On the substance, it’s kind of a dilemma, isn’t it? I mean, “any defeat” should be taken as “a humiliating rebuke” by the prosecutor, shouldn’t it, “in part because of the government’s overwhelming resources, in part because of judges’ and jurors’ tendency to defer to law enforcement, and in part because many [defendants] aren’t particularly sympathetic,” and especially because the government gets to choose what cases it prosecutes? The only fact in mitigation is that “declining to bring charges in a high-profile case can be a career killer.” Best not to be a prosecutor.