Dereich
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« on: May 02, 2018, 09:03:16 AM » |
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The size of the fees in and of themselves don't worry me; I've required people pay over $10,000 on misdemeanor charges myself when that is what was required for victim or city restitution. What concerns me is that a private firm involved in prosecution at all. The article explicitly describes these cases as misdemeanors. California really lets their district attorneys outsource cases which could by statute have jail time as punishment to private firms? That's insane! Almost everything I do is subject to public scrutiny, from my time sheets to my emails, and I'm required to write disposition statements explaining the terms of settlement and why we came to that disposition for nearly everything. I just cannot believe that other states would hand over prosecution without those kinds of safeguards that might have gotten this caught sooner.
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