Archived from the original on July 5, 2009
The prosecutor is making a decision that will have a profound effect on the lives of the person being charged, the persons family and the community as a whole.[130] Despite these opportunities for discretion, many prosecutors are far too willing to throw the book at people who use drugs, to charge them high and to seek the highest possible sentences.[131] While each prosecutor exercises discretion in his or her own cases, office culture often encourages prosecutors to adopt a default position of charging unreasonably high, instead of applying charges that speak appropriately to the facts of the case or declining to charge at all.[132] As discussed later in this report, in many cases this appears to be a deliberate tactic aimed at coercing defendants into pleading guilty to a lesser offensean inherently abusive application of prosecutorial discretion
The good times don't last long, though, as troubles strike the newlywed couple, financial and otherwise
[61] In their analysis of Ross's video, The Times said, "the front corner of the car clips him, turning him sideways", [56] and The Telegraph said he was "almost knocked off his feet as Good lurches the SUV towards him"
