The evil motives of prosecutors:

Defense attorneys are justifiably angry about the evil tactics of prospectors.  One of the favorite tactics of District Attorneys, Attorneys General and Special Prosecutors is to arrest a person for a minor crime, and then to encourage them to exaggerate or lie about the behavior of the real target of their investigation.  This tactic, called “flipping,” is a common tactic for prosecutors.  The message given to small fry subjects is simple; “Help me convict your boss, and we will consider dropping charges against you.”  That is how prosecutors enhance their reputations and careers.  The current investigations in national politics are obvious examples of this tactics. If you cannot see the evil in this tactic, you have a hole in your soul.

However the larger extent of this evil practice was more fully explained by Ayn Rand in her classic novel “Atlas Shrugged.”

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power, and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game; and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

A piece if literature I found captures the motives and attitudes of the prosecutor.

The Dark Skill - Portrait of a Prosecutor

“The Accuser” *

         

        The prosecutor's, by obligation, is a special mind, coiled snake quick, bullying, devious, unrelenting, forever baited to ensnare. It is devoted to misleading, and by instinct dotes on confusion and flourishes on weakness.  Its search is for ordinary blemishes it can present as festering boils; its obligation is to raise doubts or sour with suspicion. It asks questions not to learn the truth but to convict, and can read guilt into the most innocent of answers. Its hope, its aim, its triumph, is to addle a witness by tricking, exhausting, or irritating him into a verbal indiscretion which sounds like a damaging admission. To natural lapses of memory it gives the appearance either of stratagems for hiding misdeeds, or worse still, of lies dark and deliberate.  Feigned and wheedling politeness, sarcasm that scalds, intimidation, surprise and besmirchment by innuendo, association or suggestion, at the same time that any intention to besmirch is denied. . . all these as methods and devices are such staples in the prosecutor's repertoire that his depraved mind returns to them again and again as a dog returns to his vomit.  Eventually, by imperceptible degrees, he loses all decency and renders himself unfit for any human community, his professional skills having robbed him of his soul.

                           Anon

*The word Satan was not originally the proper name of an evil supernatural being. Satan was the title of a court official. In ancient courts the person who had the official function of “blaming” a citizen bore the title “Satan.” The person we call "prosecutor" was called “Satan” by the ancients. That is why the Bible refers to Satan as "The Accuser."

The source of the above portrait of a prosecutor is uncertain. I first discovered it in the book “Anatomy of a Murder.” However, I have seen several versions that predate “Anatomy of a Murder.” Of course, I have done my own editing and added a word here and there.

Sam

An extreme conclusion to draw from this article could be that Prosecutors are Satanic, which implies that Defense attorneys are saviors.