This is a very bad idea

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SmarterthanYou

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17686874

Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers has created an unusual incentive for her felony prosecutors, paying them bonuses if they achieve a predetermined standard for conviction rates at trial.

The threshold for an assistant district attorney to earn the average $1,100 reward: Participate in at least five trials during the year, with 70 percent of them ending in a felony conviction. Plea bargains or mistrials don't count
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this idea is just begging to be abused on a whole new level with wrongful convictions and prosecutorial misconduct.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17686874

this idea is just begging to be abused on a whole new level with wrongful convictions and prosecutorial misconduct.
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But...but this is good, old fashioned capitalism at work. Incentive. Makes people more productive. Achieves a better result. Flash a few bill$ in front of their face.

After all, isn't this exactly what the anti-Obamacare folks keep telling us? Just as the doctor needs that financial incentive to make the people well the prosecutor requires it to keep the people safe.
 
apple0154 said:
But...but this is good, old fashioned capitalism at work. Incentive. Makes people more productive. Achieves a better result. Flash a few bill$ in front of their face.

After all, isn't this exactly what the anti-Obamacare folks keep telling us? Just as the doctor needs that financial incentive to make the people well the prosecutor requires it to keep the people safe.
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Dumbest analogy EVER.
 
How so? The overwhelming number of case loads would have to be balanced against that reward. Plea bargains save time and money which translates into keeping their jobs; many cases just don't warrant the time and money to not plea out. DA budgets are not fluid and so IMO there is no need to worry about wrongful convictions or prosecutorial misconduct any more or less then before. Being careful to pick their 5+ cases would seem the more realistic outcome then not.
 
Ice Dancer said:
How so? The overwhelming number of case loads would have to be balanced against that reward. Plea bargains save time and money which translates into keeping their jobs; many cases just don't warrant the time and money to not plea out. DA budgets are not fluid and so IMO there is no need to worry about wrongful convictions or prosecutorial misconduct any more or less then before. Being careful to pick their 5+ cases would seem the more realistic outcome then not.
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Plea bargins don't count, so no incentive there. Cleary if one has lost one case already, there would be tremendous incentive to achieve convictions in the remaining four.
 
apple0154 said:
But...but this is good, old fashioned capitalism at work. Incentive. Makes people more productive. Achieves a better result. Flash a few bill$ in front of their face.

After all, isn't this exactly what the anti-Obamacare folks keep telling us? Just as the doctor needs that financial incentive to make the people well the prosecutor requires it to keep the people safe.
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Dune said:
It wasn't an anology, it was sarcasm, obviously.
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Just as the doctor needs that financial incentive to make the people well ???

Analogy or sarcasm, its not even truthful....if you're stupid enough to believe your money will buy you good health....haha...Michael Jackson would have been with us for the next 500 years....

Maybe he thinks doctors should work as slaves of the left.
 
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that's a total conflict of interest. We have to get people who allow this kind of stuff removed from government. Not just have a judge determine it unconstitutional, but we need to go after the people who made this law. I'm tired of the assault on the citizen. Is anyone else?
 
Hey. Its not about weather a person is guilty or innocent any more,but how much money they can get by keeping people locked up.
 
bravo said:
Just as the doctor needs that financial incentive to make the people well ???

Analogy or sarcasm, its not even truthful....if you're stupid enough to believe your money will buy you good health....haha...Michael Jackson would have been with us for the next 500 years....

Maybe he thinks doctors should work as slaves of the left.
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Analogy or sarcasm, isn't that exactly what the anti-Obamacare folks keep telling us? If insurance companies can not charge/not cover whatever they want, if doctors can not charge what they want, if medical care isn't run on a "what the market will bear", the "pay or suffer" system, then medical care will go down the drain.

Why wouldn't we trust a system that supposedly works to our benefit regarding something as important as our health/life to be the best way to protect our freedom and deliver justice?
 
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