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10/11/2014 4:15am
I've been more in tune with the fucked up justice system more than ever lately. This amazes me. This girl is in an extremely abusive relationship, the boyfriend kills her daughter, and she's up for 35 years? I get it, she should have sought help, but how difficult is that when you're scared for your life, and the life of your offspring, every single day. Whatever lawyer talked her into a plea deal for 35 years to avoid a trial in this situation should be fired. But how is this even a possibility? Why is our justice system so set in standards and minimums and automatic decisions that we can send an abused mom who lost her daughter away for 35 years? That's absurd.
I'd like to hear an educated legal argument that can convince me that such a sentence exists for some beneficial reason, but I'm doubtful. Not because I'm stubborn, but because this seems so far beyond logical and moral. This story hails the judge as some kind of hero, which he is, but let's look at the larger picture. If it weren't for this guy and his moral compass, this girl could have stayed in prison for a full 35. Why wasn't she given the option to plea her case to begin with? Why is it so "taboo" for a judge to go back on a decision to right a wrong, so much so that we make a sensational story about it in the rare occasion that such an event actually takes place.
https://screen.yahoo.com/news/witness-shocks-judge-011250819.html
I'd like to hear an educated legal argument that can convince me that such a sentence exists for some beneficial reason, but I'm doubtful. Not because I'm stubborn, but because this seems so far beyond logical and moral. This story hails the judge as some kind of hero, which he is, but let's look at the larger picture. If it weren't for this guy and his moral compass, this girl could have stayed in prison for a full 35. Why wasn't she given the option to plea her case to begin with? Why is it so "taboo" for a judge to go back on a decision to right a wrong, so much so that we make a sensational story about it in the rare occasion that such an event actually takes place.
https://screen.yahoo.com/news/witness-shocks-judge-011250819.html
I have a feeling this woman was not represented.
I don't want to brag on my state too much, but in Colorado the public defenders are paid more than the prosecutors -- something like this would never have happened, as in accepting a plea for 35 years. If it did happen, it would have been the result of the defendant's own choice following a long rendition by the court of all the possible implications of the deal.
I have been very pleased with the criminal justice that I have seen first hand in my state.
I didn´t click the link btw. Just saying
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