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> I've worked with enough of their case files and have had to deal with them.

I don't know what you do.

> This guy in particular was diagnosed, and he tried to use it to get out of his prison sentence too.

I've seen prosecutors make shit up that they did not believe to be true in order to keep the percentage up to move up in the department and I've heard the conviction rate touted in campaign ads for DA and AG. Lawyers are relentless pragmatists: give them an incentive and they will optimize. As far as defense goes, it's not any different. Judges like when there's a clear-cut case of something they have seen before because they're trying their damnedest to not get fired so that *they* can move up. So the prosecutor will figure out how to make it look as bad as they can so that they don't have to tell their boss why they let the guy walk, the defense attorney will try to figure out something close enough to work, the judge will try to think about it as little as possible, and the defendant thinks he's actually a great guy that is being unfairly persecuted. In the rare case that goes to trial, the jury alternates between confusion and boredom. No claim any of these people make would surprise me.