Bribery, greed: All for a little bit of Ivy League

Then outlaw plea deals. If the Sixth Amendment is so important, you shouldn't feel as though you were rolling the dice by simply exercising it.

 

So the constitution and any belief in curbing the power of the government over its citizens applies only to the people we like?

 

Out of all the injustices that happen on a daily basis, I'm picking my battles. I'm not spending a calorie worrying about the injustices to Aunt Becky.

One of her faildaughters should have taken a class in risk management, and helped out Mommy.

 

You are not just picking your battles, you are dismissing any criticism of the prosecution only because Laughlin is rich. Worse, you also are saying certain protections you believe in should not be extended to her because she deserves it.

 

She should have taken the two weeks.
Hey, she may roll a hard eight and still come out of this unscathed. I don't like her chances.

 

She would have gotten more than that (but who knows how much more?). Huffman paid only $15K, Loughlin $500K. Apparently the amount paid counts for a lot.

 

Well then, Aunt Becky is up shit creek.


Oh, and fuck her.

 

I showed an interest in the case from its early stages and now receive daily "Lori Loughlin freaking out!" and "Lori Loughlin scared to death!" updates on my phone.

 

I'm not arguing that just because poor people get railroaded (all the time), the rich should get the same treatment. My point is that is so typical that when the well to do are caught up in some injustice, tremendous amounts of emotion and energy are raised when its fair to ask "where's that energy and emotion when the less fortunate feel the same (if not greater) injustice.

You want to look at this in a vacuum, okay, its an isolated case of potential overcharging (I beg to differ but I'll accept it for this argument.) But there are much greater injustices going on that are simply ignored. Traffic violations and loitering citations, does the DA charge them? No, but its all part of the same prosecution wing of the government.

Let's go to the larger issues then, if a minority committed the crime that the Stanford swimmer did, would there have been the same sentence handed down? Or are there thousands (if not tens of thousands) of minorities who are serving tens of years behind bars?

Or more specifically, a well-heeled college student on a lark steals a car. What does the prosecutor charge then? Then a down and out meth head steals the same car, whtat is he/she charged with?

There is rampant discrimination against the less fortunate in our criminal justice system. If you want to make your stand on this case, go ahead.

 

Huffman released after 11 days per CNN.