“We have victims,” said Sarah Khan, an assistant district attorney in New York, and “we can’t always make them whole.” Even after a jail sentence is announced, she said, “A lot of victims don’t feel satisfied. verdict,” said Zachary Carter, the city government’s top lawyer and former United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “The Furies are the public because something terrible happens and the public wants action,” Mr. Vance said. “When the 2008 mortgage crisis happened, America wanted heads on a spike.”Rehabilitation, deterrence and “just deserts” are “hopefully in balance,” Mr. Vance said. “We have to be very aware of power, who does our society value,” Natalae Velez, an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, said after the show.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2017 15:02 UTC