Just accepted a job as a state prosecutor, T2 school, top 1/3 grades; AMA Forum

[Anonymous User]

blows my mind that we, as a society, are cool with entrusting untested law students with the power of prosecution

3 years+ of criminal law work, plus a clerkship.

[Anonymous User]

Public defender here. When I go out drinking, I run into clients, cops, probation agents, and even judges, but no ADAs. Why are you guys such squares?

I always go out.

[Anonymous User]

For OP,

Do you think non-consensual anal sex happens in prison? And if so, why aren't you guilty of conspiracy?

Okay.

[Anonymous User]

AMA.

Illinois?

Northeast/mid-Atlantic.

[barkschool]

blows my mind that we, as a society, are cool with entrusting untested law students with the power of prosecution

3 years+ of criminal law work, plus a clerkship.

How did you get three years of practice without a law license?

[Redfactor]

Well, I mean, imagine a new ADA who thought that prison rape didn't happen. Immediately they lose an accurate estimation of some of the best pre-trial chips a DA's office has: county v. state prison, choosing what charges to act on with child molestation v. incest/statutory rape, appealing to witnesses ect. There's an underlying humanity there, of course, but if a new hire can see that given a choice between going to a futile trial on a child molestation charge and a futile trial on an incest or rape charge even if the sentencing is exactly the same the defendant will always go to trial for molestation but plea out for the rape. At that point, then, they're well on their way. Or perhaps simply no one got a jury fired up with images of the accused getting the Martha Stewart treatment.

In my opinion, anyone who sees prison rape as leverage in plea bargaining should not be a prosecutor. The above approach is so far off course that it's not even navigable.

I am happy you're no longer a prosecutor.

[Anonymous User]

blows my mind that we, as a society, are cool with entrusting untested law students with the power of prosecution

3 years+ of criminal law work, plus a clerkship.

How did you get three years of practice without a law license?

Paralegal.

[Anonymous User]

Well, I mean, imagine a new ADA who thought that prison rape didn't happen. Immediately they lose an accurate estimation of some of the best pre-trial chips a DA's office has: county v. state prison, choosing what charges to act on with child molestation v. incest/statutory rape, appealing to witnesses ect. There's an underlying humanity there, of course, but if a new hire can see that given a choice between going to a futile trial on a child molestation charge and a futile trial on an incest or rape charge even if the sentencing is exactly the same the defendant will always go to trial for molestation but plea out for the rape. At that point, then, they're well on their way. Or perhaps simply no one got a jury fired up with images of the accused getting the Martha Stewart treatment.

In my opinion, anyone who sees prison rape as leverage in plea bargaining should not be a prosecutor. The above approach is so far off course that it's not even navigable.

I am happy you're no longer a prosecutor.

Mucho Maas, you're a dope.