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[deleted] t1_jdxsj02 wrote

Reply to comment by alphabeticdisorder in N.Y. to pay $5.5 million to man exonerated in writer Alice Sebold rape case by OutsideObserver2

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alphabeticdisorder t1_jdxtc3j wrote

No, I said coerce. The prosecutor doesn't have to pursue everything anyone asks. I can't just walk over to the city prosecutor's office and demand they lock up my neighbor. Their job is to determine whether something can and should be prosecuted. A victim can't be expected to make those decisions impartially.

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[deleted] t1_jdxu5tv wrote

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NandiniS t1_jdyidr7 wrote

Apart from the fact that this is a shitty analogy, the answer to your question is clearly nope, you wouldn't be at fault at all if you simply asked me to kill someone (without coercion) and I'm the one that went and killed them. DUH. What kind of lunatic would suggest otherwise?

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