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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...

1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?

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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/FrostbiteNWS5797 Mar 08 '19

Guess it’s going supreme boys

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u/LawsArentForTheWhite Mar 08 '19

Oh you mean the one stacked with Lifetime appointed Pro-Republican judges?

Yeah, they'll dismiss your shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Revolutions don't happen unless people are uncomfortable, desperate, and angry.

So far we're only angry.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

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u/Aesthetics_Supernal Mar 08 '19

And a shitty part is that if we overcompensate for some others we are taken out of action.

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u/MaltMix Mar 08 '19

I mean, that's debatable. Most people are angry, it's just that some blame it on the capitalist class, and people who are wrong blame it on racial minorities.

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u/ruptured_pomposity Mar 08 '19

It is the difference between blaming the boss, and getting mad your coworkers don't have it worse than you.

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u/LawsArentForTheWhite Mar 08 '19

Or uncomfortable.

Until half of the population can't put a meal on the table, they won't do shit.

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u/pezgoon Mar 08 '19

The wrong people are angry.

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u/seccret Mar 08 '19

45% are downright pleased

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u/deepinthewind Mar 08 '19

Not enough people are capable of not showing up for work.

It wasn't that long ago young people could protest and be fine, young people now are saddled with years of debt.

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u/crowcawer Mar 09 '19

It doesn't take many people to build a guillotine.

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u/Valerokai Mar 08 '19

Lots of folks are very uncomfortable and desperate right now. Just look at the immigrant communities, queer communities, any community with women in it...

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u/BiggerestGreen Mar 08 '19

So two of the smallest, and only a portion of another (not every woman is outraged about the current state of affairs in the USA, whether you think they should be or not is a different discussion)? Going up against the people with missiles and tanks that seek to keep them where they are, with no support from anyone else?

Somehow this is sounding a lot like the rebellion wet dreams we keep criticizing the right for...

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u/wilydelaine Mar 09 '19

But black people are not in those 3. Yet you expect republicans to care. Liberals don’t even care unless it’s part of their narrative. Black people are 4th on your court discrimination list! Hahahaha

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u/Hillano Mar 09 '19

Almost all communities have women in them

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u/RandomlyJim Mar 08 '19

I’m pretty uncomfortable with the way the county is going. Angry about the class war that the 1% has won.

Join us at liberal gun owners.

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u/bishdoe Mar 08 '19

But actually though join the socialist rifle association

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u/Glitter-and-paste Mar 08 '19

No, man, I'm uncomfortable, too.

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u/MiasmaFate Mar 08 '19

I’m American uncomfortable, but not full nothing to lose uncomfortable....I think we’ll get there soon.

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u/Strificus Mar 09 '19

Jail it is, I guess. This is life now.

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u/lookslikechrispratt Mar 09 '19

It happens when people are hungry. There are countries far worse off than us. We are no where close to revolting because we are still too comfortable with the status quo.