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>First, this shouldn't be a "sometimes" thing, it should be a "never" thing. You get convicted for drugs, regardless of how much, and your life is forever chang
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
>First, this shouldn't be a "sometimes" thing, it should be a "never" thing. You get convicted for drugs, regardless of how much, and your life is forever changed.
A lot of things should "never" happen but do. Life isn't fair. Some people have really bad luck.
- homonculus1 8y agoWhat an asinine response. Bad luck should happen in spite of the law, not because of it.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThe law specifically seeks to prevent these kinds of outcomes by giving the parties involved leeway in how they do their jobs. You need an asshole cop, a prosecutor looking to pad their performance stats, a judge that doesn't care and a lawyer not doing their job in order for someone to go to jail on a possession charge and in the rare event that does happen when the miscarriage is pointed out it can usually be corrected by downgrading the offense after the fact. At least four people need to do their jobs not only wrong but do them wrong in a specific way in order for someone to go to jail over drug possession.
- trickstra 8y agoshould we look at the numbers how many times it happened?
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoSure. But you'll need to figure out some way to model social acceptance. Going to jail for weed in 1990 was not considered a miscarriage of justice. Going to jail for weed in 2010 is.
- dang 8y agoCould you please review the site guidelines and not break them here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Your comment would be just fine with just the second sentence.