Our system is based on admissible evidence presented and not trial by media as seems to be the case in the US at times.

and police who try their case in the media by leaking selective information to taint the jury pools. Then when they get the public worked up against the defendant to the point of a lynch mob, the DA "graciously" offers to cut a deal so they can score an easy conviction and advance their political careers. If you refuse the deal, may gawd have mercy on your soul, because the DA and police will pull out all the stops to convict you, regardless of the evidence.

Or at least, that is how it seems to me for those of us who cannot afford a top-notch lawyer. If you have enough money, almost anything, up to an including murder, is allowed.

Unfortunatley. And the Public Defenders play right along with the prosecutors, which is why so many mentally incompetent and developmentally delayed people are sitting in prisons with sentences far longer than those of people with more normal metal processing.

I wonder who she had to bribe to get it.

as the prosecutors' cheering section.

To side with the state, take a right turn and go down the hall.