We’re in the midst of a series of lawsuits and criminal probes seeking to do exactly that. When public pressure rushes prosecutors, we get nonsense like Arizona getting rejected for original jurisdiction by SCOTUS.
We have due process. Not mob rule.
We have due process for the privileged. Tell all of the poor defendants who have been held in Rikers for over a year without a trial that they have due process.
Yet this reporter was able to assemble the trail from court documents.
For every person creating Byzantine structures there are several adept at untangling them.
> Tell all of the poor defendants who have been held in Rikers for over a year without a trial
Not arguing that they aren’t getting an advantage. Just that there is zero evidence so far that they’re going to get away with it.
Also, New York has abolished cash bail. If someone is in pre-trial detention, it’s because they were deemed to be a flight risk. Not because they couldn’t afford bail. (EDIT: Never mind, we rolled back most of the changes in April after a purported crime surge)
It's hard to make a case for something being prosecuted in good faith if there is never any attempt at using the tools that are otherwise so vastly abused in prosecuting the most meaningless "crimes".