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The logic there is if the criminal appeals and gets a charge dropped due to a technicality or some other issue then they are still in jail. Not ideal but not wi
by weaksauce 7y ago
The logic there is if the criminal appeals and gets a charge dropped due to a technicality or some other issue then they are still in jail. Not ideal but not without logic.
- sandworm101 7y ago"Technicality" is a euphemism for "constitutional rights". You don't get out of prison because the cop spelled your name wrong as he booked you. You get out because, in the eyes of the system that sentenced you in the first place, someone steamrolled over rights enshrined at the heart of the American system. Those rights are meaningless if governments may violate them without repercussion. The sum of all the "technicalities" is the thing we call freedom.
- sparky_z 7y agoI not sure where you're going with this. If someone committed 10 murders, but the turns out to have been wrongly accused for the 11th, should that be a get-out-of-jail for the other 10?
- beerandt 7y agoWhich seemingly would cover this exact situation. Even if his sentence was complete, he would have more life sentences to serve. Of course that's a big hypothetical "if."