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minus-squareHayduke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up148·2 months agoRape children - no worries. Touch algae pond - believe it or not, straight to jail.
minus-squaredhork@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·2 months agoRape algae pond? Straight to the Cabinet.
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoIf it makes you feel any better, DC juries will laugh this out of court if the judges don’t first.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoI wish I had this kind of confidence in our criminal justice system
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThey’ve been pretty consistent so far, refusing to indict in a few similar cases and then acquitting the ham sandwich guy.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI guess they better hope they’re afforded due process then. Not a guarantee anymore in the US.
minus-squarebrygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s if they even make it all the way to trial. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/11/only-2-of-federal-criminal-defendants-go-to-trial-and-most-who-do-are-found-guilty/
Rape children - no worries. Touch algae pond - believe it or not, straight to jail.
Rape algae pond? Straight to the Cabinet.
If it makes you feel any better, DC juries will laugh this out of court if the judges don’t first.
I wish I had this kind of confidence in our criminal justice system
They’ve been pretty consistent so far, refusing to indict in a few similar cases and then acquitting the ham sandwich guy.
I guess they better hope they’re afforded due process then. Not a guarantee anymore in the US.
That’s if they even make it all the way to trial.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/11/only-2-of-federal-criminal-defendants-go-to-trial-and-most-who-do-are-found-guilty/