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The US justice system doesn't start from fair. It starts from what you can prove to the letter of the law. And when you're targeting someone / something with u
by ethbr1 5mo ago
The US justice system doesn't start from fair. It starts from what you can prove to the letter of the law.
And when you're targeting someone / something with unlimited lawyers, you'd better have ironclad evidence that exactly that happened in exactly the way the claim is written.
- timcobb 5mo agoOkay, sure, but I'm talking about being satisfied. I understand reality and that I may not get the satisfaction I would like. And specifically the example of Al Capone who was, yeah, got for tax evasion, but at least was treated ultimately like the criminal he was.
- ethbr1 5mo agoI mean, he was sentenced to 11 years and served 7 1/2. But untreated (at the time, no penicillin) syphilis turned him into a mental pre-teen after his release, so I guess the universe serves some justice where the laws of the land do not.