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> Also note, that symmetrical funding will mean costs inflation - if defendant gets a million, prosecutor probably would have to spend more on prosecution, since now he has to overcome a million-dollar lawyers.

I don't see how that makes sense.. If the prosecutor completely relies on having far more resources than the defendant, then surely the case is weak enough to lose?

It would definitely mean that prosecutors give up on more of their weaker cases.

> So, let's say the defendant pleads out and the jury can not convict him because of whatever stupid thing. How it makes prosecutor necessarily bad?

That's why I mentioned "consistently" bad...



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