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>> the department of justice proudly announced the bank agreed to pay total of $1.9 billion, which was a record fine. it amounted to five weeks worth of income for the bank and no criminal charges were announced. a decision attributed to concerns that charges could jeopardize the bank and potentially the entire global financial system. general eric holder, instructing prosecutors to consider the collateral consequences of a corporate criminal conviction in determines whether to charge the corporation with a criminal offense. in other words, try to avoid corporate prosecutions because they coul...

Have ever been charged. >> people will say about the criminal justice system, they'll be like, well, all these people are guilty. you know, that's -- and you, you know, you find the odd person who's innocent with your innocence project, and you find the dna. >> not just a few. >> but does the system do a good job of essentially exercising any discretion? i mean, is it mindful? is it just in who it prosecutes and who it doesn't? >> well, it's become almost mindless because we have such an expansion, just take misdemeanors. people go to criminal court all the time on cases where they can't affor...

Should say the issue is not solely her, but what happens to the next person who's innocent and knows about this case? they take a plea bargain. something they really shouldn't have ever been charged. >> people will say about the criminal justice system, they'll be like, well, all these people are guilty. you know, that's -- and you, you know, you find the odd person who's innocent with your innocence project, and you find the dna. >> not just a few. >> but does the system do a good job of essentially exercising any discretion? i mean, is it mindful? is it just in who it prosecutes and who it d...

Pled no contest to the disorderly conduct charge. however, it appears that her lawyer has since worked out this pretrial diversion, which is not a conviction. no contest is a conviction, and pretrial diversion is not a conviction. the difference between pleading guilty and pleading no contest is that with no contest, you're not admitting you did anything wrong, but it can still be used against you as a conviction, still can have collateral consequences, the truth of the consequences is under atlanta law, there is a case that makes it clear that mouthing off to police officers, being obnoxious,...

>> i think that felix is portraying a perspective in a world of gloom and doom that wouldn't happen. there is a rational way to say to a bank, such as this, what we do with three fel-- street felo say to them, if we have the third prosecution or guilty plea, we'll take you and restructure you and sell off the pieces of the bank. we're not throwing thousands of people out of work. we're taking the pieces of your institutions and giving it to others who will fill the void. the world has not failed to have account accountants, there are ways to mitigate the collateral consequences. if we don't sa...