No objective evidence. It’s tough to build a case around key witnesses and testimonies that are easily assailable by the defense, especially ones that could play well to a jury.
It’s not fair, and this all very, very likely happened as the court documents allege. But proving it in a court of law is a whole different thing.
Prosecutors generally try not to take cases they’re not confident they can win. They’re underpaid and overworked and try and follow the 80/20 rule, which is that they can do more good prosecuting the 80% of cases that are slam dunks, than waste tax payer money chasing 20% of the cases that require just about “everything to go right” for them to come out on top.
It’s one of the many things flawed within our justice system right now that a DA won’t pursue this because the blowback of losing the case would end their career.
No objective evidence. It’s tough to build a case around key witnesses and testimonies that are easily assailable by the defense, especially ones that could play well to a jury.
It’s not fair, and this all very, very likely happened as the court documents allege. But proving it in a court of law is a whole different thing.
Prosecutors generally try not to take cases they’re not confident they can win. They’re underpaid and overworked and try and follow the 80/20 rule, which is that they can do more good prosecuting the 80% of cases that are slam dunks, than waste tax payer money chasing 20% of the cases that require just about “everything to go right” for them to come out on top.
It’s one of the many things flawed within our justice system right now that a DA won’t pursue this because the blowback of losing the case would end their career.