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Originally Posted by Five-hole

This post is not directed at you, Reaper, but ...

The point is that criminal law, either defence or prosecution, are not where the guys who really just want to make money go. Hence the argument that the justice system is flawed because money-hungry power lawyers get into crim defence and upset the balance between prosecution and defence is flawed.

And there are very good lawyers in prosecution, people. They don't get paid as much as some defence lawyers but they get their own perks and they're still compensated very well.

Finally, this isn't the US. The Crown's job is not to secure as many convictions as possible, it's to get a result that suits the needs of justice, society, and the accused. Sometimes that's a conviction with a harsh penalty, sometimes it's alternative measures, sometimes it's a stay or an acquittal.

There's a lot of really simplistic viewpoints being tossed around in here like they're fact but they really belie a vast ignorance of the way the system actually functions and what its purpose is.

That's not the job of the prosecution in the US. I understand that there is a political element, but that's a massive mischaracterization.