[Lurker]

The Judge has wide powers of contempt. I suggest he or she start using them.

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[GrootheWanderer]

Yeah, that’s what I don’t get. He disqualified the entire DA’s office because multiple sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors perjured themselves in this case and have been refusing to turn over exculpatory evidence in many other cases. So why didn’t he take action against those individuals he found had violated the law?

[Oatka]

There was a guy in Nevada who shot two people who were squatting in his abandoned house. I thought sure the guy would be nailed as he had shot off his mouth as to what he would do - but he walked, courtesy of the jury.

What got me was this: "a charge of attempted murder as well as four alternative charges of first- and second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter."

They forgot littering and jaywalking.

Talk about "Throwing the Book", this was the whole damn library!. How can they do this?

From what I have seen, this appears to be a standard approach in many cases - when the State's case is weak, throw everything at the defendant and bulldoze him (or his court-appointed attorney advises) into pleading guilty to the lesser charge, even if he is innocent.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

It wasn’t so many years ago that I naively thought folks who confessed or were convicted of crimes were ACTUALLY guilty.