Reply #105: that's a rather vanilla version [View All]

[sui generis]

the point is that the DA originally wanted this case and that the police did not exercise their discretion in whether or not to even charge the child with a felony to begin with, and they theoretically DO know how the legal system actually works.

Someone was out to use this case for political hay. I've seen DA's here in Dallas go to town on a single pooper scooper violation as representative of the end of western civilization; it wouldn't surprise me to see them try to get life without parole just for the notoriety and free press.

The whole affair is vexatious to the actual parties involved.