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Guilty, until proven innocent, or until it's proven that there's no law that is being broken.
by epistasis 1y ago
Guilty, until proven innocent, or until it's proven that there's no law that is being broken.
- bb88 1y agoThe defendant still has to pay for their defense, even if the charges were frivolous.
- epistasis 1y agoExactly, and defense of a federal prosecution is a multi-million dollar defense.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoFederal criminal prosecutions have a 91% conviction rate. 89% plead guilty, only 2.3% go to trial and most of those are convicted. A Just Us system.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoA crime will always be found.
- i80and 1y agoWhen I played Half-Life 2 for the first time as a teen, the dialogue of man 1: "They have no reason to come to our place." man 2: "Don't worry, they'll find one" felt so abstract