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DA Supervision = conflict of interest?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 1674766" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>See, this is part of the <em>problem</em>, not the solution.</p><p></p><p>Police, courts, jail, and other such expenses are one of the (financial) prices we pay to live in a civilized society. We all draw benefit from those institutions, so this is one we all really <em>ought</em> to be paying. Further, shifting the costs onto "offenders" (whether they're hurting anybody or not) creates perverse incentives for the state to maximize the number of "offenders," both by maximizing convictions and by invention of new "offenses."</p><p></p><p>Deferred adjudication is, in some ways, the worst of the bunch: the state promises to pretend the incident never happened, in exchange for paying the penalty anyway. Sounds like a shakedown to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 1674766, member: 13624"] See, this is part of the [I]problem[/I], not the solution. Police, courts, jail, and other such expenses are one of the (financial) prices we pay to live in a civilized society. We all draw benefit from those institutions, so this is one we all really [I]ought[/I] to be paying. Further, shifting the costs onto "offenders" (whether they're hurting anybody or not) creates perverse incentives for the state to maximize the number of "offenders," both by maximizing convictions and by invention of new "offenses." Deferred adjudication is, in some ways, the worst of the bunch: the state promises to pretend the incident never happened, in exchange for paying the penalty anyway. Sounds like a shakedown to me. [/QUOTE]
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