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Treating a human trafficker and someone who downloaded some files from a server the same is not in the job description of a prosecutor. What an absurd statement. It's very much the job of a prosecutor to make judgements about the severity of the crime and how to respond. And in this case, the prosecutor showed incredibly poor judgement. There wasn't even a particular reason why the case should go federal in the first place. The state prosecutor saw things very differently.


The job of a prosecutor is to get a guilty verdict, the judge decides the sentence. At least that's how i understand it.


The prosecutor can tack on stupid charges, e.g. Luigi Mangione getting a terrorism charge, and pursue punishments




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