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To: HawaiianGecko
It has all the same consequences of a guilty plea, but instead of pleading guilty or nolo contendere, one simply pleads not guilty to avoid court, but accepts the consequences anyway.

What consequences? "Not guilty" means "not guilty".

669 posted on 04/28/2006 6:11:45 PM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
What consequences? "Not guilty" means "not guilty".
 

You need to look up what an Alford Pleading is. Not guilty might mean not guilty in your mind, but it doesn't necessarily mean that in court. You don't get the privilege of paying $30,000, be told by a judge that you have to endure treatment for drug dependence and keep your nose clean for 18 months if you are not guilty.

Your right, not guilty means not guilty if the court says so, not because Rush says so. If the court said he was not guilty the charges would have been dismissed today, not 18 months from today.

Now all that said, Rush got a bum rap out of all this for the last year. But what does it matter? It's not like he has to worry about filling out a job application in the future. He's not going to lose any listeners and he's not going to change his philosophy of bashing the daylights out of the liberals in this country.  In short, the only thing liberals get out of this today is a couple of days slapping each other on the back.  BIG  DEAL!

 

 

720 posted on 04/28/2006 6:35:14 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
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