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[quote=Anonymous]As a former prosecutor I am angry watching this case unfold. It was clear to me from the start that the evidence was insufficient to meet the burden of proof to convict on the charges filed. The whole thing has been handled with politics in the calculus instead of the interests of justice. Now dropping the charges but stating that Baldwin is not cleared of criminal culpability so essentially feeding the public frenzy (have you seen how people are commenting online about him, that he has a target on his back and should end up like Halyna?) instead of making up their minds and being done with it. It’s prosecutorial abuse of power, in my experienced opinion.

I don’t like Baldwin. He’s a decent actor and I have enjoyed some of his performances over the years, but since his verbal abuse of his daughter was made public years ago I have had zero respect for him as a human being. The wife with the fake accent and the brood of kids raised by nannies does nothing whatsoever to improve my opinion of him. I think he is probably someone I wouldn’t get through a meal with before reaching a level of intolerable disgust.

But as a former prosecutor, someone who studied prosecutorial powers extensively in law school courses with a heavy emphasis on the ethical demands of the role, someone who has completed the career prosecutor course given by the national district attorneys association, I’m deeply troubled by how the case has been handled.[/quote]

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