He is being sworn in this morning.
Congrats to Mark.
Lots of line prosecutors and defense lawyers (and even judges) wondering what changes will be made.
Good luck!
UPDATE -- Here's a lovely picture from the swearing in:
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It will not matter. They come and go like the tide.
ReplyDeleteMaybe people should post here as to what they want him to do
ReplyDeleteMaybe he will get rid of the "trial tax" to stop "punishing" defendants for going to trial. Every defendant would get the same sentence and offer after jury trial as if they admit their guilt and plead guilty. Every defendant could roll the dice for an acquittal. No incentive to save the system resources causing the system to become overwhelmed. The resulting backlog in criminal cases and the drain of government resources would mean less cases being done, less enforcement of the law, and few crimes being prosecuted at the federal level. Because time consuming trials, defense attorneys would spend much more time trying cases. Private defense counsel would increase their fees accordingly, causing the private counsel to public defender representation ratio to skew toward public defenders. This would continue until private defense counsel realized they needed to lower their fees to compete for fewer cases, causing all but a select few elite defense counsel to make less while fighting for fewer clients. That would be a nice change.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your thoughtful comments Judge
ReplyDelete“Judge”! LMFAO.
ReplyDeleteThe honor to be appointed to the dirtiest USAO in the country.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he can start there. There’s plenty of known skeletons in the coat closet he just inherited.
Why is nobody smiling n the picture ?
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