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Pepper. Just Pepper's avatar

I hope you’re right in his case. I also hope he’s no longer the person he possibly was 20 years ago.

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sarafina's avatar

Pepper - IANAL but Jermaine Hudson DID NOT COMMIT THIS CRIME. And from the time someone ages from 18 to 40, you bet your ass they are not the same person. What is wrong with you?

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sarafina's avatar

Read every word of the article. It says it in there.

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Vagenda and Pee-ara's avatar

How did that guy sleep for 22 years, knowing he had put an innocent person in jail? I can't even imagine.

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Pepper. Just Pepper's avatar

Read my original post. What I said was the enhanced sentence is within guidelines. My second response said I hope he isn’t a murdering armed robber based on his prior convictions.

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rufus magister's avatar

Uh, by using drugs?

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rufus magister's avatar

As the Oregon paper put it, those damn Catholics and Jews from Southern and Eastern Europe don't get it.

Even Catholics from Western and Northern Europe. No Irish need apply....

But I bet they'd overlook the stray Frenchman.

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rufus magister's avatar

One would have to adduce actual evidence.

Since the article says he'd turned his life around, I'm guessing he was likely good for 'em, sad to say.

The punk who couldn't just say at the line up "Tain't none of these, y'all" but had to finger someone for Daddy's sake looks like the only real bad guy here.

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rufus magister's avatar

I'm thinking he likely would, what with relapse rates.

But he'd have been more likely to have done the time he deserved, and maybe his latest re-hab woulda took.

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rufus magister's avatar

Guessing he's might be in rehab. Those 12 step programs want you to make amends.

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rufus magister's avatar

Good look with DA's giving up "prosecutorial discretion" in charging. Too powerful of a tool to induce compliance.

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rufus magister's avatar

Criminal immunity does not preclude civil liability.

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rufus magister's avatar

I disagree. You want the malefactors to cop to it, so the innocent get out. All too often it's the only way we find out.

But if before that the authorities have sussed you out, I'm all for throwin' the book at them, to discourage such silence.

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rufus magister's avatar

No. You want these folks to fess up, so we find out and the innocent go free.

If you lied to avoid jail time long ago, many will continue to lie to avoid it again.

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rufus magister's avatar

This is not really news. It's gone on for a while in every jurisdiction, state and federal.

Prosecutors like the leverage, and it ups their conviction rates.

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rufus magister's avatar

Many Episcopalians and Presbyterians feel that way about the Irish too. It an anti-popery thing, Protestants will understand.

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