Not at all, Jordan2 - appreciate your thoughts.
Sociopaths, yes, agree, but - and not saying it's the case here - also sometimes trained "normal" people. Don't hate me but I know a woman who works at a good hotel in their reservations department. Actually, she and her co-workers are who people would talk to if they want to cancel a reservation at the last minute without penalty. The culture of that office is such that they get a kick, celebrate, when they are able to collect the penalty. I was kind of horrified when she was celebrating a "success" after work one day, telling us about it, how they were able to collect a fee (maybe the entire cost of the room, don't recall for sure) and how they danced and cheered in her office. But that is the point of that particular office - if they didn't do it, they wouldn't have jobs, kwim? So no matter how distasteful it is to me, they look at it as a success when they get that money out of the wealthy people who can afford that hotel.
Now, to you and me, and any decent person, a prosecutor's office should be absolutely nothing like my friend's hotel job. But we all know that some are, in particular Corey's office, where all they care about is a conviction rate, not what's right or wrong. Theoretically, a prosecutor's conviction rate should be at least near 100% because they should never file charges unless they're certain the person is guilty
and that they can prove the case. It's not a huge jump for an ethically challenged, ambitious person, to pervert that into filing whatever case they think they can make stick, and from there, not so far to filing whatever case they think they can make stick by hook or by crook - by withholding and manipulating evidence and witnesses - whatever it takes.
As we all know, Corey has a history of seriously overcharging poor defendants and offering a plea deal. I mean, seriously, in the Fernandez case, as I understand it, a 12 year old boy pushed his little brother; the little brother hit his head and died; Corey charged him as an adult with murder1. When one is too poor to put on a defense and facing 20 years or more, a 3 year plea deal may seem like a gift.
If she's not a sociopath, which I haven't ruled out in the slightest, she may be a narcissist, or she may, of course, be both. Think about how thin-skinned she is, with her threats to Dershowitz, calling his employer, threatening to sue him and the school, threatening to sue a newspaper for printing unflattering stories that were true, etc. etc. etc. That sure sounded like narcissistic rage when she was on the phone haranguing Harvard law school for 45 minutes, didn't it? In the world of a narcissist, the only "right" is what benefits them and the only "wrong" is what doesn't or what they don't like. Also recall that southern bell schtick she was doing after the verdict. I'm not a psychiatrist, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I think that fits Corey very well, as does sociopath.
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