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Biden DOJ's 'overcharging,' partisan targeting shows 'we have just lost our damn minds': critics
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DOJ's exceptional court success rate raises concerns of overcharging and pressure tactics, sparking urgent calls for reform: experts.
Prosecutors commonly charge additional felonies to pressure guilty pleas, Chapman said, which is denounced by the American Bar Association for violating defendants' fair trial rights. Federal prosecutors have a 99.6% conviction rate, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center study. As such, federal investigations result in more pleas and avoid trials altogether. Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
This week, a Texas doctor was charged by the DOJ with four felonies after exposing the hospital he worked in for allegedly secretly conducting transgender surgical procedures on children. Chapman, a former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Marines Corps, said, "This is a Merrick Garland allegation, guaranteed."
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Tuesday’s release of Julian Assange from 14 years of confinement is to be celebrated on humanitarian grounds. But as we celebrate his return to his wife and children, let us take this moment to examine how our nation, once the global champion of press freedom, came to persecute this brave journalist.