True terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
(4) @DeWalt @YoungBlood Plea bargaining allows prosecutors to focus on high-level offenders, however it does not always appear that way in practice. Too often, those with money or influence or are a “protected class” manage to escape serious consequences, receiving what amounts to a slap on the wrist. It is difficult to draw a clear line between a plea that is coercive and one that is truly voluntary.
@YoungBlood
Who the Fawk are cutting Plea Deals with this vermin?
Is this Pam's idea of tuff?
The scumbag had a knife. Should have been exterminated.
New York City was denied twice the cost of the entire federal judiciary for just the second avenue subway and hudson tunnel projects.
Most of the judiciary isn't even mandatory spending like judge salaries, which only take about 800 million per year.
Annual payments to bondholders represent 100 times more money spent than the entire federal court system.
The state court systems which adjudicate most crimes are individually smaller than the federal court system, with even a state like California only paying about 3 billion per year for their courts, but together puts the vital role at about 25 billion per year nationwide. Including the federal judiciary that's less than 35 billion, which is still 1/1000 of the federal debt and 1/30 of federal debt maintenance, about the same as NASA, about the same cost as 3 aircraft carriers.
It's pretty strange when you think about it. Unlike NASA, the courts are a core function of government, but they struggle to "find money" for this core function while there are many non-productive things they can magically find lots of money for. The reliance on plea deals is certainly in part justified by the incongruity.
VA democrat AG nominee talking about the republican speaker of the state house.
This is what they think about doing to you when they not openly doing it.
