Real Truth #18: Prosecution’s Unfair Advantages

As the Government, the Prosecution Can Employ Any and All Resources Against You

When a person is charged with a crime, they are not simply facing an individual prosecutor. They are facing the government. That distinction matters far more than people realize.

The state has investigators, forensic departments, expert witnesses, lab access, administrative power, subpoena authority, surveillance resources, specialized task forces, data access, and institutional coordination that extends far beyond what any single defendant can realistically match. The government does not run out of time in the way individuals do. It does not run out of personnel. It does not run out of funding in the same way.

If the government decides to allocate energy to your case, it can do so without meaningful constraint.

Be Prepared for Unfair Advantages and Tactics

This creates immediate imbalance. The scales are not weighted evenly. One side has infrastructure. The other side has a person trying to defend their freedom, reputation, and future. That imbalance exists before any strategy is discussed and before any fact is ever argued.

And yet defendants are expected to navigate this environment as if it were a level playing field.

The government can delay. The government can expand the scope of the investigation or add charges without constraint. The government can escalate. It can bring in experts. It can run tests repeatedly. It can pile on procedural weight until the process itself becomes exhausting. It can do all of this while the accused is managing stress, employment instability, family strain, and the psychological cost of pending charges.

That resource disparity is not incidental. It is built into the structure.

The danger is that defendants underestimate what that imbalance means. They assume the case will proceed “normally.” They assume rationality will govern the pace. They assume proportionality will exist. They assume effort will mirror severity.

It often does not.