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Really? You don't say. Wow, I thought your incredibly unbiased and uneducated opinion was based upon your years of experience in legislation creation and implementation. Wow you really could have fooled me.

But now that you admit that you know nothing, why bother adding in your thoughts? You just admitted you are uneducated, so why on earth would I pay any mind to your opinions? I'll let you ponder on that one for a minute.

Uneducated on the subject*

Is hatin on USA flavor of the month?

Nah, just a constant like gravity.

Her life barely started and she will spend the rest of her life in prison... The judge literally killed this girl.

Calm down charlie brown

Damn, shit is outdated.

Such a creep... Just saying

haha jesus! settle down friend.

Wasn't expecting such a response from Mr Twigz tbh.

Maybe... he's Just having a bad day.

Unless your post contributes in any way to this discussion, I suggest you shut your mouth next time as well. You accuse him of knowing nothing about this subject and therefor imply that you do know something about it. Well enlighten us, mister lawyer. Share with us your educated thoughts so we can pay mind to your opinions.

OT: Ridiculous sentences are a logical consequence of a privatized jailsystem.

I usually quite enjoy reading Budo's posts, he shares his honest opinion and doesn't try to impose it on others, I see no need to be so aggressive...

Yep, that was unexpected from MrTwilliger.

Sorry about being a bit of a dick, tired, grumpy, eh.

All in all what I probably should have said is that I trust the judgement of a Judge more than I do that of most people. I also believe it's ludicrous to allow the very day man to be the maker of laws. I spend all day arguing with my racist co-workers that re-implementing the White Australia Policy would be the literal death of Australia. Now imagine if we gave these people some actual legislative power? >_>

I'm sure there's much more to this story than meets the eye. Judge's just don't go giving out life sentences for no apparent reason. I value their educated, experiences opinions over that of the every day man. I don't think giving control to the public will resolve cases like this, all it will do is allow the media (the main source of the every day mans facts) even more influence.

We are pretty fucked up over here. Our Laws are either unenforced, or over enforced.

Than I go look what North K. is doing and go hmmm its not that bad.

I'm a little iffy on what capacity you trust a judge over anyone else, but they are just as biased as anyone else. The only difference is they're more educated on the judicial system. Still there are countless judges throughout this country that make bad judgements(which cost innocent ppl their lives), and are racist, bigots, liars, cheats, etc. Some even make lawyers look good. Anyways, point is, I wouldn't trust a criminal law judge anymore than anyone else when it comes to sending my ass to the sammer or not.



lol Cream of the crop there... You know you're special when you can't get out of jury duty. Aww Casey Anthony loves her some jury trials!

If she really killed the person who was exploiting her sexually and was abusing her, then there is no way any judge on this planet can justify a life long sentence without parole. But judges aren't the real problem, it's that completely and utterly retarded jury trial. Letting normal biased people decide whether or not a person is guilty? It is by far the biggest flaw in modern western legal systems.

Criminals in the US are seen as valued members of the community despite the fact that all they do is terrorize law-abiding tax payers and suck money out of their pockets via welfare, EBT, medicaid, and unemployment checks. Oh, and did I mention the ONLY REASON why I never signed up as an organ donor is because criminals are eligible to receive organ transplants that is paid-for by the people's tax money as long as they're in prison? As long as that law is there, there is no way I will ever sign up as a donor.

It's ridiculous that you have to worry about serving time in prison for defending yourself because you might be seen as using "excessive force" if you end up killing or crippling someone who tries to mug you on the street or rob you in your home. I still have yet to hear a compelling argument as to why it should be illegal to kill these people. It's not as if society benefits from having them around; in fact, it's actually quite the opposite.

Yeah, compare yourselfs with the worst ones out there.

That's probably what a lot of governments do. As long as there are people worse than us, it's not necessary to change anything.

Don't know what your talking bout, whether local or federal the governments always trying to change something whether good or bad. Getting a lot of 1st world problem vibes from alot of people posting lately.

^Yeah it's either they're not doing anything or they're trying to do something just for the sake of doing it.
I live in the "1st world" so that's where the problems are that I complain about.

They should just record the trial, edit out the stuff that the jury is supposed to magically forget and condense it to just presentation of evidence and witness/expert statements. Closing arguments too I guess but those are usually just a lawyer showing how big their nads are(figuratively). Put 20 registered voters in a room, show them the tape, ask them to give a verdict.