> I must, however, make clear that this office’s conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case. That's why you assign investigations to independent entities, and that's why butchers aren't allowed to do their own health inspection. Whether it was appropriate or not is not for Carmen Ortiz to say. "The prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his ac…
One. It is a very serious mistake to deny someone the right to believe the correctness of their own opinions. Two. People use leverage. They may or may not use it rightly but they do use it. Anyone who cannot set their opinion of the justice of that to one side, and get on to the business of the contest at hand, is not cut out for politics. Such people enter these contests at a great disadvantage and risk getting hur…
This becomes very tricky when you have the power to enforce your opinions on other people.
I think that knowing the letter of the law is not enough and people who work as judges or prosecutors should also have profound sense of justice - without it, any law can be twisted and tortured into unjust persecution when there is a will. Even the best humanly possible law is not immune to that. It's always easy to find a stick when you really want to beat the dog.
The way I see it, if Cameron Ortiz were to prosecute herself the same way she apparently prosecuted others, she would be facing death penalty right now. But I'm sure she would be offered some 'acceptable' deal.