let's make a deal

     "Let's Make a Deal" was a popular game show, on which contestants might win a new car, or pick the wrong door and win a cow.  Unfortunately, this is often played out in court, and not just on weird escapist television shows. Prosecutors make deals with those accused of crimes--plead guilty to a lesser offense ( lesser than the original charge ) is a common offer--when the defendant pleads guilty, the court has already promised leniency.  Turn state's evidence is another offer, and often misused-- by prosecutors hoping to catch a bigger fish with the testimony of so-called "small fry". For all such deals made by prosecutors, they don't seem to catch very many "big fish". But all this is really beside the point--the point being that the laws were passed by the representatives the people elected for this purpose--and no one elected the prosecuting attorneys. It just isn't their place to rewrite the law.