McCamy Reports: Employers go to SCOTUS to Demand Their Right to a Hand Slap and a Token Fine
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that could change the way justice is delivered in this country. Some of the nation's employers are arguing that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been taking them to court without giving them a chance to ask for the hand slap and token fine to which they have become accustomed.
"As hard working American employers, we are entitled to our hand slap and token fine," says a CEO of a major corporation who asked to remain anonymous. "It's right there in the Constitution in the First Amendment. 'Anyone with enough money to bribe a judge or a political party is entitled to a hand slap and a token fine.' Say a couple of miners die, because someone was too cheap to put in proper safety measures. It isn't the mine owner's fault. He knows that lack of proper safety will only cost him a hand slap and a token fine. If anyone should be forced to suffer, it is the government itself for offering to sell him a get out of jail free card for a hand slap and a token fine. I say send the federal prosecutors to jail and the judges---all except Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Brown and Kennedy. Those good old boys have my back. I know they'll do the right thing---because I just wrote a great big Citizens United Free Speech check to the GOP."
Criminal lawyers are said to be watching the case closely. If the Supreme Court agrees that prosecutors no longer have the discretion to try cases of their choosing in which the defendants have made any type of settlement offer, then they are prepared to assert that prosecutors are not entitled to press criminal charges against a defendant who offers to accept a reduced sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.
In an interview with a criminal defense attorney who asked to remain anonymous "Say my client kills someone and is ready to admit it and spare the public the cost of a prolonged jury trial. In exchange, he should be allowed to set his own sentence. If we start telling murderers "It's death row if you go to trial and Disney Land for a day if you plead guilty", the DA will get a lot more convictions and we will clear the logjam in our courts."
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