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The prosecutor is making a decision that will have a profound effect on the lives of the person being charged, the persons family and the community as a whole.[130] Despite these opportunities for discretion, many prosecutors are far too willing to throw the book at people who use drugs, to charge them high and to seek the highest possible sentences.[131] While each prosecutor exercises discretion in his or her own cases, office culture often encourages prosecutors to adopt a default position of charging unreasonably high, instead of applying charges that speak appropriately to the facts of the case or declining to charge at all.[132] As discussed later in this report, in many cases this appears to be a deliberate tactic aimed at coercing defendants into pleading guilty to a lesser offensean inherently abusive application of prosecutorial discretion
A minor may act as a decoy to assist with compliance checks, provided that prior written parental consent is obtained, the minor is under 21, the minor appears to a reasonably prudent seller to be of an age that would require a request for identification, the minor carries either his own identification showing the minor's correct date of birth or no identification, the minor presents the identification upon request, and the minor answers truthfully any questions concerning his age
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