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Note she also has a GoFundMe to help cover her legal expenses to right this wrong. It's a pretty severe miscarriage of justice that has grievously altered this

by warent 4y ago

Note she also has a GoFundMe to help cover her legal expenses to right this wrong. It's a pretty severe miscarriage of justice that has grievously altered this innocent woman's life going into a recession. Please consider donating what you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/restore-money-lost-after-wrongful-arrest https://www.gofundme.com/f/restore-money-lost-after-wrongful...

kashunstva 4y ago
I’d even kick in a little to file a civil suit against the neighbour.
- psychlops 4y ago
  There could have been multiple calls.
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> has a GoFundMe to help cover her legal expenses to right this wrong To be clear, Wallace "is in debt after losing her job and paying for the lawyer and the diversion program" and "hopes to hire a lawyer to get her record expunged so that she can work with kids again." The GoFundMe is to pay for those costs. It won't do anything to undo the original miscarriage.
- psychlops 4y ago
  Part of the problem is that she pled guilty, thereby endorsing the position of the police and creating a larger problem in the future. I don't know what the correct response is when looking down the barrel of a 2 year sentence for nonsense, but think this publicity battle should have been before the plea.
  - eftychis 4y ago
    Agreed about the publicity battle.
  - tsol 4y ago
    The fact that the system can force people to plea guilty, be found to be wrong-- and there's no way to undo that. That's more the system running us than us running the system
  - jmaygarden 4y ago
    That's the problem with the legal system. It's extraordinarily common to plead guilty when innocent because fighting the charge is more damaging than accepting a deal. I even had this happen to me with a traffic ticket. It was way too expensive to fight it even though I could easily proven my innocence. This lady probably would lose at trial and then have to appeal. The judge could instruct the jury that they have to adjudicate whether she dropped off the child or not regardless of whether that should be reasonable. You often can't argue constitutionality and some other factors until appeal. That would bankrupt the family.

by warent 4y ago

kashunstva 4y ago

I’d even kick in a little to file a civil suit against the neighbour.

psychlops 4y ago
There could have been multiple calls.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

> has a GoFundMe to help cover her legal expenses to right this wrong To be clear, Wallace "is in debt after losing her job and paying for the lawyer and the diversion program" and "hopes to hire a lawyer to get her record expunged so that she can work with kids again." The GoFundMe is to pay for those costs. It won't do anything to undo the original miscarriage.

psychlops 4y ago
Part of the problem is that she pled guilty, thereby endorsing the position of the police and creating a larger problem in the future. I don't know what the correct response is when looking down the barrel of a 2 year sentence for nonsense, but think this publicity battle should have been before the plea.
- eftychis 4y ago
  Agreed about the publicity battle.
- tsol 4y ago
  The fact that the system can force people to plea guilty, be found to be wrong-- and there's no way to undo that. That's more the system running us than us running the system
- jmaygarden 4y ago
  That's the problem with the legal system. It's extraordinarily common to plead guilty when innocent because fighting the charge is more damaging than accepting a deal. I even had this happen to me with a traffic ticket. It was way too expensive to fight it even though I could easily proven my innocence. This lady probably would lose at trial and then have to appeal. The judge could instruct the jury that they have to adjudicate whether she dropped off the child or not regardless of whether that should be reasonable. You often can't argue constitutionality and some other factors until appeal. That would bankrupt the family.