MSNBC Morning Joe June 4, 2024 10:16:00
Determination. pretrial diversion is their show. they run it. they decide if you violated it. the judge's role is to hit pause in the prosecution until the parties come back and she says, "well, what's the deal?" the prosecution either says yay or nay, we're going to prosecute or we're going to dismiss the charges. the other part of that, of course, is what was the government agreeing to not prosecute him for? the language said, "all the things encompassed" -- a magic word to me -- "by the list in this agreement." if i was the defense, i might have said, encompassed, there's a list of things, ...
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