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> The 20 (that seemed high to him for a 2 year plea) is a fuck you for going to trial So you get an 18-year "fuck you" for invoking your Sixth Amendment right
by ggg9990 8y ago
> The 20 (that seemed high to him for a 2 year plea) is a fuck you for going to trial
So you get an 18-year "fuck you" for invoking your Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury of your peers?
- csa 8y ago.... when the evidence is stacked heavily agaisnt the defendant. For more marginal cases, the offers tend to be much less punitive. Look, I'm not a lawyer. You may want to go talk to one -- especially a public defense lawyer. Your eyes will be open about how fantastically reasonable the system usually (intentional hedge word -- not all DAs or judges are reasonable, but most are) is.
- anoncoward111 8y agoSo every non-violent drug offender should just take their multi-year sentence to third-world-tier prisons and their felon status too and be happy with it?
- leesalminen 8y agoPretty much. Once you’re negotiating with a DA, you’re going to jail. They’re never gonna let you go.
- anoncoward111 8y agoI suppose my comment was intended to highlight the relative absurdity of punishing non-violent drug offenses with jail time. It quite literally creates career criminals out of non-criminals, since, once they have a crime on their record, virtually all avenues of employment are closed off to them besides violent/property crime.
- wu-ikkyu 8y ago"Fantastically reasonable" is an interesting way of describing the legal system punishing the greatest number of prisoners in the world.