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> What happens if someone illegally accessed your account and placed those images there? You'll go to jail, and have to figure out how to post a $100,000 bail

> What happens if someone illegally accessed your account and placed those images there? You'll go to jail, and have to figure out how to post a $100,000 bail right then or stay there for quite some time, sometimes indefinitely (see current Riker's Island cases in NYC), you'll have to figure out how to find a good lawyer who maintains a reputation AND won't take the state's charge and media smearing at face value, and also pay their retainer. Your lawyer will have hoped you actually didn't say "Maybe, why?" Why do you ask, were you expecting some enlightening thought exercise on changing the process? This happens everyday in this country.

quuquuquu 9y ago
I'm afraid I am right there on the same page as you. I have a hunch many readers are consciously, or unconsciously, ignorant to the problems you described above. I suspect that you should feel some of these things should change. Perhaps a lower bail? Perhaps house arrest instead of jail? Perhaps a less costly legal process that vehemently screens for reasons to not go to trial in non-violent crimes? (child porn possession is debatably non-violent). How do we increase the possibility of bringing about these changes?
- ringaroundthetx 9y ago
  > Perhaps a less costly legal process that vehemently screens for reasons to not go to trial in non-violent crimes? If you can't do any of the things I mentioned above, you will take the plea deal and there will be no trial, you will go to prison for at least several years, possibly decades, but either way you'll be a felon and unemployable for the rest of your life, also a sex offender for the rest of your life, and not for one of those debatable reasons either. But thanks for keeping the process quick, that was very considerate. But change? Good question. Something broad that isn't about the topic and laws at hand, perhaps leaning on another country's system while being sensitive of our punishment culture. Yeah, I've got nothing, rehab perhaps? I do have to commend you for trying here, and I do hope less people are ignorant to the user experience problems in our justice system.

quuquuquu 9y ago

I'm afraid I am right there on the same page as you. I have a hunch many readers are consciously, or unconsciously, ignorant to the problems you described above. I suspect that you should feel some of these things should change. Perhaps a lower bail? Perhaps house arrest instead of jail? Perhaps a less costly legal process that vehemently screens for reasons to not go to trial in non-violent crimes? (child porn possession is debatably non-violent). How do we increase the possibility of bringing about these changes?

ringaroundthetx 9y ago
> Perhaps a less costly legal process that vehemently screens for reasons to not go to trial in non-violent crimes? If you can't do any of the things I mentioned above, you will take the plea deal and there will be no trial, you will go to prison for at least several years, possibly decades, but either way you'll be a felon and unemployable for the rest of your life, also a sex offender for the rest of your life, and not for one of those debatable reasons either. But thanks for keeping the process quick, that was very considerate. But change? Good question. Something broad that isn't about the topic and laws at hand, perhaps leaning on another country's system while being sensitive of our punishment culture. Yeah, I've got nothing, rehab perhaps? I do have to commend you for trying here, and I do hope less people are ignorant to the user experience problems in our justice system.