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Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR
so the court ruled that the replacement DA should have honored the deal the original DA made with him, and because that didn't happen, they overturned the conviction basically?
holy crap
do we think his legal team are master strategists, and they had him testify a civil trial on the assumption it'd be too juicy for a future DA, who would be unlikely to honor the deal in light of that testimony, etc.? or do we think it's just a whacky combination of circumstances in a chaotic universe that randomly resulted in this?
either way, it seems totally bonkers and i feel like it should have been a much larger part of the national conversation
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Yeah, that's what happened re: the DA. I'm sure his legal team was trying to do what was best for him and assumed they could trust the DA's word, which they should have been able to. As much as the whole thing is horse shit and it's a tragedy he's free, verbal agreements are legal and I don't understand how it got brought to trial after that.