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dansezlajavanaise's avatar

what is the ABA doing to encourage compliance from these AGs?

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Khavrinen's avatar

Given how much of our "Justice" system relies on privately operated prisons, my suggestion for the "fourth factor" is the suspicion that somewhere, some way, some of the tax-dollars that pay for these men's prison stays ( and all of their fellow "room-mates" ) are ending up back in the AG's/governor's pockets. Or perhaps merely in their golfing buddies' pockets.

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Karl Dubhe IV's avatar

Would you? I sure as heck wouldn't. Heck, I'd be suing now.

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Carl Bastrop's avatar

Am I allowed to say? "What a bunch of fuckwads?"

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sarah_kay_gee ⚜️🏰⭐'s avatar

Missouri was not a Confederate state. They were a "border state", a slave state that did not secede from the Union.

They still suck for this, though.

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Karl Dubhe IV's avatar

I would, but I'm foreign, so I'd bet they'd be even less willing to hear from me. :)

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яовэят ёскэят 😘's avatar

Missouri split early in the war, the pro-Confederate state government holding little of its territory.

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popebuck1's avatar

My favorite ones are the three witches, myself. But obviously there's no wrong answer!

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BrianW's avatar

In other words America, Made Great!(Yes, snark. I would hope such a declaration wasn't necessary here, but just in case. . . .)

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

That's a very long argument.

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Desperate Ambrose's avatar

"'[A]ll will be well in the garden' so long as things work how they are supposed to work."

And things work how they are supposed to work because people, who actually make decisions, make that happen. Prosecutors who "think that their duty is to defend every judgment, no matter the justice of it" have made a conscious decision to ignore ABA Rule of Professional Conduct 3.8[1]:"A prosecutor has the responsibility of a minister of justice and not simply that of an advocate. This responsibility carries with it specific obligations to see that the defendant is accorded procedural justice, that guilt is decided upon the basis of sufficient evidence, and that special precautions are taken to prevent and to rectify the conviction of innocent persons.""The System" does not operate on autopilot.

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OCDHedgehog's avatar

When that cover came out, Trent Reznor remarked that the song was no longer his.

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Marlon Rando  🇺🇦's avatar

That sounds like Cape Girardeau

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Marlon Rando  🇺🇦's avatar

The southern part of the state was a checkerboard as slavery was decided by county.

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Marlon Rando  🇺🇦's avatar

Thank you. We were a confused state, and some things never change.

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Marlon Rando  🇺🇦's avatar

Don't generalize. The scenery in the Ozarks is grand, we generated Mark Twain, Wm Burroughs, and a host of lesser lights that have contributed to the Union. The fact that the state is run by dim, narrow, shallow minds put in place through a machine that protects the idiocy herein has nothing to do with the residents.

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