Swallowing the bitter pill
Why is it so much more difficult for the State to accept that it lost?
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about 3 years ago
Because they’re not used to it.
A story: After a motion to suppress was granted (a colleague of mine argued it), the Commonwealth was still reluctant to dismiss. And so, on the date set for trial, the case was scheduled for a status conference so that the ADA could “determine how to proceed.”
At this point, the judge scheduled the conference and said, “So this is what happens when the Commonwealth is in the unfamiliar position of having a motion to suppress granted, huh?”
about 3 years ago
It could also be that they don’t like seeing things that make it easier for some guy who did it to get off.
about 3 years ago
SPO,
Relax. It’s Friday. Your rhetoric is tiresome.
about 3 years ago
I suppose it messes with their world view that cops are perfect, their witnesses are the unbiased lenses of objective reality, and complainants never have an ax to grind…and that someone besides the defense attorney has told them it ain’t so.
about 3 years ago
SV, you got me–I just spew rhetoric, without any thought behind it. TexPD, I am sure most prosecutors are a little bit more wise than you give them credit for.