When We Waste Money on Politically-motivated Prosecutions & Death Penalty Prosecutions, the Administration of Justice Suffers!!(court staff layoffs)

In a Los Angeles Times piece, the hits that are coming and will continue to come from diversion of resources to politically motivated prosecutions, making people plead the sheet (vs negotiating an appropriate charge which includes lesser and includeds listed in the indictment/complaint), harassing lawfully operating medical marijuana dispensaries and insisting on death penalty prosecutions (when we can't afford them, vs life sentences-see http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/07/the-high-cost-of-capital-punishment-in-california/), taking insurance fraud prosecutions for greedy insurance companies in cases where the prosecution is being done in retaliation for the claimants or applicant refusing to accept an unreasonable offer vs paying court staff needed to get the cases through the system are coming to pass. The tragic narrow-mindedness is the resulting likely case backlog growth, which may cause cases to be dismissed or reduce the number of new cases the DA's offices can accept and handle [See: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0720-court-cuts-20110720,0,6855877.story].