The Outrage Thread

[boozeman]

Wait, nobody believes this shit do they?

 

[bbgun]

So if you perform community service, you can avoid sentencing and prison? Someone pass this along to Manafort and Cohen.

 

[Cotton]

Wait, nobody believes this shit do they?

Good god, you would hope not.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

 

[Smitty]

Whatever.

The important part is that hopefully the real "woke" people will not let themselves be continually bamboozled by fake race baiting claims.

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Cotton]

Good, keep being vocal about it. Yell until someone is forced to answer.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Wow, even Emanuel is ripping the decision, calling this a whitewash of justice and an indication that if you're in a position of power you can get away with things other people can't.

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Cotton]

Question for the lawyers here, if the Mayor and Chief of Police are both condemning this, whose decision would it have been to dismiss the charges?

My guess is a judge, but how does a single judge overturn the decision to indict by a grand jury?

 

[Cotton]

 

[Cotton]

There is some serious corruption going on here.

 

[Cotton]

What in the actual fuck? So, the DA is essentially saying that he is not innocent but we dropped the charges anyway? How the fuck could that possibly hold up legally?

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Smitty]

Question for the lawyers here, if the Mayor and Chief of Police are both condemning this, whose decision would it have been to dismiss the charges?

My guess is a judge, but how does a single judge overturn the decision to indict by a grand jury?

No, the District Attorney/Prosecutor has the decision to reach a deal or dismiss the charges if they want; and that's apparently what happened here. And that position is usually elected, so the Mayor can't just fire the DA.

 

[Smitty]

What in the actual fuck? So, the DA is essentially saying that he is not innocent but we dropped the charges anyway? How the fuck could that possibly hold up legally?

Well, he paid a fine and did community service. The punishment has to fit the crime, after all. And the 8th amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment still stands. What do you expect?

Dude, the long answer here is, as you said a few posts up...

1) Corruption.

2) Someone doesn't want a big trial dragging Smollet's fake race baiting into the public consciousness, because then the boy won't be able to cry wolf anymore.

 

[bbgun]

As a gay black man, he had intersectional street cred. And Foxx (surprise surprise) is a far Left black cunt. They take care of their own.

 

[Cotton]

Well, he paid a fine and did community service. The punishment has to fit the crime, after all. And the 8th amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment still stands. What do you expect?

Dude, the long answer here is, as you said a few posts up...

1) Corruption.

2) Someone doesn't want a big trial dragging Smollet's fake race baiting into the public consciousness, because then the boy won't be able to cry wolf anymore.

But, he should only be made to pay a fine if he was convicted or if they reached a plea deal, right? They dismissed the charges and still enacted a punishment. How does that even make sense?

 

[boozeman]

This is kind of fucked up.

 

[Sheik]

This is kind of fucked up.

Agreed.