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His criminality is one matter, but the full weight of the Federal Government on him was an entirely separate matter. A federal prosecutor's job is to jail you regardless of whether it is for downloading a file from a server or for trafficking in humans, and they will come at you with the same vigor regardless of the crime. And nothing has changed about that.

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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

Isn't that what this whole thread is about? They're surely not going to come after Meta with the same vigor.

That is complete bullshit as evidenced by the federal criminal sitting president.... The ONLY time I ever see this argument is to try and paint over blatant police and state injustice and tyranny.

"A federal prosecutor's job is to jail you regardless of whether it is for downloading a file from a server or for trafficking in humans, and they will come at you with the same vigor regardless of the crime."

You have to be malicious to put forward this statement in the current environment. Or you are so propagandized you think it's true? Either one is very frightening

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