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Prosecutors have wide ranging discretion, our laws are complex and subject to a tremendous amount of interpretation.

Without protection the executive would be at the mercy of the judicial branch. This is clearly an inversion of power.

Perhaps the solution is clean out our legal system wholesale so that it is obvious to all involved whether an action or set of actions could not result in prosecution in the future. Such an action was not within the power of the supreme court.



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