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To: Star Traveler

Look, it’s time to start prosecuting and sending to jail. The more they get away with it; the more they will do.

They need to go to jail.


317 posted on 07/01/2009 10:11:22 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

You said — They need to go to jail.

I would agree, too, that people need to go to jail for crimes.

But, let me point out something, and it was in the news just recently in Oklahoma. There was some child molester that got a drastically reduced sentence for his crime on a plea bargain arrangement. And people were outraged over it — outraged with the judge, with the DA, with the lawyers and so on.

So, why did he get that drastically reduced sentence. Well, very simply because everyone agreed (who was involved in it legally) that they couldn’t really *prove* the case to a jury and thus he had a pretty good chance of getting off. Thus, they plea bargained it down to what it was. Others said that they should have gone ahead and took it to jury, even if they didn’t have evidence and let the jurors convict him anyway... LOL...

Well, if I were a juror, I would *not convict* anyone without solid evidence and without evidence that put the whole case *beyond a reasonable doubt*...

AND THUS, that’s the problem you’re going to have. Or to say it another way, I say *Yes* convict the devils — but “the devil is in the details” (of being able to successfully prosecute someone beyond a reasonable doubt)...

And it *should be that way* — because I don’t want *anyone* prosecuting me, and convicting me, beyond a reasonable doubt, either.


318 posted on 07/01/2009 10:17:38 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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