If you can’t afford bail, you’re locked up for a year or two easily pending trial. Which makes even innocent people take plea agreements.
Plea agreements are a lot better for DAs and prosecutors, they do t have to prove anyone is guilty, just keep arresting poor people who dont have this large network of idiots that will pay their bail. When something does go to trial, it takes years.
If you’re surprised about this, you need to learn more about our justice system and how it actually works.
No it’s not. There’s no bail, for example, and no plea bargaining in civil cases; jail time isn’t on the table, the district attorney isn’t involved, the standard of evidence is lower, and the rules of procedure are different.
First comes the discovery phase where both sides exchange evidence and the court settles any evidentiary questions. This phase can frequently take longer than the trial itself.
Pathetic and expected. It takes a lot of time and money to bring someone to trial. And since lawyers are paid hourly, both sides simply love to stretch it out as long as possible.
Nobody charged because the perpetrators are wealthy and connected. I would be amazed if this civil action suit did not languish in court for years.
This occurred close by me, and I remember the chilling effect this had on all democratic campaigns hundreds of miles away.
The sheriff and other local law enforcement agencies helped prolong the harassment by not doing anything despite multiple 911 calls. This was a combination of complicity and fear.
Not surprised no one was charged, the local police refused to respond to their 911 calls during the attack so the DA refusing to press charges makes perfect sense.
Nice to see the western propaganda against poppy seeds still going strong. No wonder it’s so damn hard to buy reasonably priced seeds in NA to bake one of these puppies upload.wikimedia.org/…/440px-Makowiec.jpg
Roughly one in two Americans said they are not very or not at all exposed to environmental and climate change risks. Those perceptions contrast sharply with empirical evidence showing that climate change is having an impact in nearly every corner of the United States. A warming planet has intensified hurricanes battering coasts, droughts striking middle American farms, and wildfires threatening homes and air quality across the country. And climate shocks are driving up prices of some food, like chocolate and olive oil, and consumer goods.
Something something 'muricans can’t name 5 different countries in a map
Americans also largely believe they do not bear responsibility for global environmental problems. Only about 15 percent of US respondents said that high- and middle-income Americans share responsibility for climate change and natural destruction. Instead, they attribute the most blame to businesses and governments of wealthy countries.
“Me driving a SUV that’s almost as big as a bus anywhere farther than 500ft from my home is not a problem at all!!” - average american, probably
“Me driving a SUV that’s almost as big as a bus anywhere farther than 500ft from my home is not a problem at all!!” - average american, probably
SUVs are passe at this point. The hip thing is to drive a super-duty V12 king cab truck with a constantly empty truck bed to the store.
As an American burgermeister, it’s also important to complain about the price of gas continually while doing this.
(For extra credit: be sure to idle for 50 minutes in an in-and-out or chik-fil-a line that spills out into the street and blocks traffic on your way home from the store.)
Oh look, it’s the latest Big Company propaganda piece attempting to blame the average citizen for ruinous climate change that is pretty much solely on the back of corporate negligence and/or malice, because not being an evil douchebag costs the company 15 whole extra cents a year!
Here is what the delusional defendants are claiming:
“This is a travesty of Justice to see an administration weaponize the law against average Americans for exercising basic Constitutional rights,” Joeylynn Mesaros, one of the defendants, wrote on a website that she and her husband created to raise awareness about the lawsuit and raise money for legal fees.
stop referring to things by the name they chose for it, and call it what it is. it wasn’t a “trump train,” it was a massive fragile douchebag conga line
Of course politics made it worse as well… Anything “environmentally friendly” is now viewed as “liberal” (the left, not the general “free market” type liberal) in America by “conservatives” and they’re brainwashed daily to not only hate anything the left says or wants, but they’re also made to believe that it’s “fake news”…
Some of these hateful chucklefucks actively “roll coal” by running their trucks extra rich, or making a toggle switch that will allow them to do it on the fly, so they can spew black smoke at cyclists and anyone driving a Prius or easily identifiable electric car…
I’m sorry but anyone who thinks people with thc in their urine are less valuable than people that don’t, is a worthless piece of human trash themselves. It’s appalling that this is even a thing but more so how many people actually support it staying the way it is.
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