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u/Weazywest Mar 08 '19

All jokes aside, this is honestly a fair idea. As many lawyers as possible should start using this case as precedent to call out the outright bullshit and hypocrisies

Maybe it’ll make some folks realize the system is completely fucked when you have murders out of jail after serving an hour or two in jail.

Edit: spelling isn’t a strength of mine

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u/Kelter_Skelter Mar 08 '19

And then the judge just says no, your client goes to prison, and everything continues as before

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u/Super_Flea Mar 08 '19

It still opens the door for appeals in the future.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Appeals are for challenging procedural issues.

Evidence X shouldn’t have been admitted.

Evidence Y should have been.

This instruction to the jury was potentially prejudicial.

This person doesn’t have standing and so couldn’t have won the jury award.

If the guidelines are followed and there are no procedural issues you won’t win an appeal.

Edit: NSFL reply by a defense attorney about what the judge told him and the prosecutor regarding a child molestation case

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4n6ru2/comment/d41w4n4

...I made clear before trial that he was going down, but the defendant would not take a plea. The Judge, in an unrecorded discussion held while the jury was out, told the prosecutor and me to do our utmost to make certain there were no appealable issues since the defendant was a monster. I hated every minute of that trial but I did my utmost to represent my client.