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So your argument is that depressed people should be able to avoid trial altogether? He wasn’t even in custody when he took his own life.
by xadhominemx 6y ago
So your argument is that depressed people should be able to avoid trial altogether? He wasn’t even in custody when he took his own life.
- maerF0x0 6y agono, just that policing needs to be made a good deal less scary. Also, at least as I understand it peripherally, it can be sufficiently punitive just to lay chargers and force the other person to prove their innocence. This includes lost time from legitimate activities (school/work), lost wealth (lawyers, opportunity cost), and the emotional trauma of fighting a near unlimited resource state versus your own very limited resources to prove they're the ones who are acting unjustly.