OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[forty_three]

Thousands of people have raised more than $1 million for a man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit

Thousands of people are raising money online for a Missouri man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

www.cnn.com

Okay, that's great and all that people are helping this guy live well after what he's been through.

But why isn't the law firm that paid the guy who wrongfully put him away paying a ton of money? The defense attorney who blew it? The original judge? The prison? The state themselves?

There is a link to a National Registry of exonerations in the article. Almost three thousand people exonerated after serving time. The longest is a guy who served FORTY SEVEN years. It's incomprehensible to me that there is no punishment for the people that got it wrong in the first place.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Thousands of people have raised more than $1 million for a man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit

Thousands of people are raising money online for a Missouri man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

www.cnn.com

Okay, that's great and all that people are helping this guy live well after what he's been through.

But why isn't the law firm that paid the guy who wrongfully put him away paying a ton of money? The defense attorney who blew it? The original judge? The prison? The state themselves?

There is a link to a National Registry of exonerations in the article. Almost three thousand people exonerated after serving time. The longest is a guy who served FORTY SEVEN years. It's incomprehensible to me that there is no punishment for the people that got it wrong in the first place.

That's a slippery slope. I understand the sentiment but if we start punishing people for getting verdicts wrong (even those that seem egregiously wrong) you start to slide the opposite direction and that can be much worse for society as a whole.

The real key to reform here is better prosecutors who don't see prosecutions as a win-lose game and are more willing to turn down a case that's built on shitty evidence and reliant on the prosecution "selling" the defendant as the guilty party rather than actually proving it with an abundance of evidence, defence attorneys who actually want to defend their clients rather than simply look for the quickest way out, and laws that make it much clearer when a crime has and hasn't occurred and to what extent it can be punished.

Also, grand juries are fucking dumb. Stop that.

 

[Comeds]

So far in the first 2 days of my week alone - 3 movies and 2 drinks. I'm fixing that as I post.

 

[Comeds]

 

[dash]

So far in the first 2 days of my week alone - 3 movies and 2 drinks. I'm fixing that as I post.

Not only a critical thinker, but a critical drinker. Kudos sir.

 

[thedddd]

So he’s dead?

Seriously that guy has the worst self defense training but I love how he always has that ear piece in. Really makes him look official.

 

[Comeds]

So he’s dead?

Seriously that guy has the worst self defense training but I love how he always has that ear piece in. Really makes him look official.

That guy is ready for any situation!

I'm going to go to the mall with a PS5 box and wait for a mob to come at me to do this.

 

[Comeds]

 

[forty_three]

My father in law was just on his laptop, apparently on facebook. He just came into the kitchen where me, my son and Mrs 43 were talking and announced that the new "variance" is fake because "Omicron" is an anagram of "moronic".

1 more day.

 

[dare2be]

"Hey Omicron!"

 

[puckhead]

My father in law was just on his laptop, apparently on facebook. He just came into the kitchen where me, my son and Mrs 43 were talking and announced that the new "variance" is fake because "Omicron" is an anagram of "moronic".

1 more day.

Next variant should be called upid-stay otherfucker-may
just to see if they can de-code it

 

[puckhead]

New Jersey!

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[thedddd]

New Jersey!

MSN

www.msn.com

How can you be in New Jersey and not know how to dispose of a dead body?

 

[dash]

How can you be in New Jersey and not know how to dispose of a dead body?

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Wrong side of the Hudson.

 

[Comeds]

Well I'm going to hell. Part of my wife's Texas trip was a couple of days in San Antonio with her sisters and mother for her mother's birthday. Her mother canceled because she was "tired". So I have been speaking poorly of her for canceling something they planned for her for the past couple of days. Well today they found out she has covid.

Oops. In my defense, canceling a trip to get more attention does sound like something my MIL would do.

 

[forty_three]

Well I'm going to hell. Part of my wife's Texas trip was a couple of days in San Antonio with her sisters and mother for her mother's birthday. Her mother canceled because she was "tired". So I have been speaking poorly of her for canceling something they planned for her for the past couple of days. Well today they found out she has covid.

Oops. In my defense, canceling a trip to get more attention does sound like something my MIL would do.

Good thing for you hell isn't real!

Kidding - hope she recovers well.

 

[puckhead]

speaking of hell - four days snowed in with an Oasis cover band
the only thing worse would be to have been stuck with the actual Oasis.

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

speaking of hell - four days snowed in with an Oasis cover band
the only thing worse would be to have been stuck with the actual Oasis.

MSN

www.msn.com

Oh come on mate, don’t look back in anger.

 

[dash]

Oh come on mate, don’t look back in anger.

He's banging his head against a Wonderwall.