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It wouldn't be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

On one hand he should just be scentenced, but I can also see how sending him to jail might also away the elections in the wrong way. He would make himself a martyr.

If he loses the election and gets ssent to jail then, he can't go on a. "the elections where stolen" tour.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Were going to not show bias by being overwhelmingly biased towards this one person.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Damn big bias showing there trumpette

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago

It's a good thing all he did was be found Guilty of a TON of Felonies and then put Judge Merchan's daughter in LIFE THREATENING DANGER! It's a good thing he wasn't a BLACK MAN selling Cigarettes! That would ACTUALLY be BAD!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's wild how much the slowness of the judicial system distorts society. Rich people delay forever and evade punishment...this was a crime from 2016, 8 years ago, he was found guilty in May and won't even get his sentence until late November, let alone start serving it.

But, this is also a cause of some of the major issues at the Southern border. The immigration system is so bogged down that it can't process the volume, judges are doing bulk decisions with seconds reading each case, people are being released into the US until their case can be heard which can be a long time, and that process is so politically toxic that both parties have switched to flatly illegal methods of rejecting legal asylum seekers or other legal immigrants.

I'm not a legal expert but can we get some proposals to speed this all up? Do we just dump resources at it, get more judges so they can have fewer cases? Change the laws? Something needs to happen here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It’s crazy how money puts people in permanent positions too, even after they’ve lost it all.

I have a friend for example, his family ran one of the biggest farms in the area. They had millions. With those millions they made very important connections.

They’ve been broke for a decade now.

See, some years back my old buddy was thrown off of a horse and has permanent brain damage. Something changed in him after that. What he’s doing isn’t something anyone can defend, but he should have been stuck in a hospital and treated. Before his mother died, she kept him on his medication and he was ok. After her death no one is there to enforce it, so he doesn’t take it.

He’s been charged with stalking three women in less than two years. He gets it in his head that they love him and they’re testing him. The judge is in on it, the police. Anything anyone says he interprets as being part of this big test. “I was there at the local arts center and the cops came and said, “We know you care for her but you can’t be here.” See, they know I care for her. It’s all a big test buddy, I’m telling you.”

It took multiple charges before they finally put him in jail. 2 with the first woman, 3 with the second, 2 with the third. Finally they couldn’t do him favors anymore. Or, favors for his dad that is. His dad played golf with the judge for years, the family lawyer is a lifelong friend who has finally had enough and was working his cases for free. I think he finally gave up after the last batch of charges.

I mean, maybe it’s because they know him and feel sorry for him having seen him grow up and the trauma his family experienced when he nearly died after the accident. Still though, money afforded him that position and even broke they still have it in a sense.

Anyone else would have been buried under the jail for what he’s done. I mean, I feel bad for him, but a line has to be drawn somewhere and the entire local small town system has pretty much let him run wild with these delusions because they know his family so well.

It’s a mess.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Fuck that orange felon, what trash

[–] [email protected] 201 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what the fuck, he was convicted, who gives a flying shit about his fucking candidacy.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Louder, so those in the ~~south~~ back can hear it

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Neutrality only helps the fascist

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago

Not show bias, but demonstrate extreme bias.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 4 months ago

Justice delayed is justice denied.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a fuckton of bias to me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Ma'am we know he ~~raped~~ you...sorry, sexually assaulted you. But we have to be bias to him. He might be President again. That is above ~~rape~~ sexual assault.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It’s the Just Us system

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