by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

This is exactly what’s wrong with so-called “criminal justice” today.

District Attorney Larry Krasner said when he initially told Hill he could be facing 25 years in prison, Hill tried to negotiate and “said 20” — to which Krasner agreed.

“We need to be clear here: This was bulls— from the beginning,” Krasner told The Philadelphia Inquirer, describing the agreement as “phony baloney.”

Krasner said Hill requested the agreement in writing — which the district attorney claimed he started, but never finished. He said the suspect’s lawyer was in on the mock agreement.

Great.

So we have several things going on here, all of them catastrophically bad.

1. The defendant’s lawyer violated several canons of law, including intentionally lying to the client.

2. The DA lied as well.

I get it — that was a crap situation and the goal was to get the suspect out of the place in one piece, never mind all the other people trapped inside, both cops and other suspects in the drug bust, along with anyone in the immediate vicinity.

But — the example now set and admitted to in public, which is a catastrophic piece of stupidity, is that all future suspects can not believe either the words of the head of the just-us department there (the DA) or their own lawyers.

This means that if one is in such a situation the only logical thing for said suspect to do is shoot and kill everyone you can and accept that you’re already dead because whatever you’re told is a lie.

Remember the basic foundation principle here folks: All after the first all the rest of the murders are free.

This is always true and can never be otherwise.  Anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size can figure this out.

Situations like the recent one in Philadelphia are some of the worst of “corner cases” around.  There are no good answers.  But we can make a bad situation much, much worse by destroying any vestigial element of credibility within the legal system both among prosecutors as proffered to suspects but even worse, between a suspect and their attorney.

The real issue in this instance which nobody will take responsibility for nor will the people of Philadelphia enforce said responsibility by whatever means are necessary are the utterly ridiculous number of nolle prosecuti charges — that is, the intentional refusal to prosecute — that this individual had in his record including many for felony crimes against other people.  The suspect would have been out in public as he would have been in prison and thus none of this would have happened.  Rather than admitting responsibility for his intentional act in this regard, screwing those victims, Larry lied and worse, entered into a conspiracy with the suspect’s attorney to lie to said person as a means of covering up his own intentional, criminal malfeasance.

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