And then they’ll ask why people see Luigi as a hero.
I have unhinged family members who would gladly hunt down an individual who did this to their loved one.
Is that a “hoarding guns in case the government gets corrupt” situation. Or are the people involved too white for that?
So if the victim is not at the same status as the offender, say in financial terms, then the penalty is decided upon each of the individuals portfolios? And then that is how the outcome is determined? Someone please explain how this is like uhh, um not a sustainable path forward. JFC , it’s beyond wretched.
tl;dr - convicted Guilty by jury, then-Governor of NJ who was handing out pardons like candy immediately pardoned him via a pre-existing clemency request that went into public view on the nj.gov website while they were clearing the courtroom after the jury left. Rest of the article is word salad, probably AI.
Thanks. NYT is paywalled.
Then use an add-on to block.
Or, an I know this is crazy, but, OP could also just post the fucking archive link so no one has to deal with NYT or any of the ads/trackers they try to force on anyone who visits.
The article is so poorly written. I can’t believe people pay for this kind of garbage writing.
They don’t that’s why the writing is garbage
So what is the point of juged by your pears. Or is it we are not his peers cause we poor.
Unfortunately, we never were. They have just stopped pretending at this point.
You forgot about how humid it was.
I don’t have a problem with the writing style. Doesntseem like AI to me.
Not just a rich man, the nepo baby of a Democratic party power broker, apparently
FTA:
“Unfortunately, when politics pervades justice, the rule of law becomes subordinate to influence and power…a conviction can be rendered meaningless not by the verdict of a jury, but by the intervention of political power and connections,” the ACPO spokesperson wrote. “Justice must be blind to status, relationships, power, and expediency; when it is not, the community loses faith in the very system meant to protect it.”
Well give that fucking family OJ treatment cant pardon away a civil suit. And since he was found guilty well then take that fucking families wealth.
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How so? I’m not that familiar with either of them other than knowing they are news outlets.
Unsurprisingly the same Governor that made plates and insurance mandatory for all e-bikes. Guy had a busy week as he was leaving office apparently.
Issuing this pardon before the jury had even rendered the verdict. Funny how mountains can be moved so expeditiously when it’s for a friend.
Here’s a similar story from a couple years ago about a racist piece of shit who shot and killed a protestor, was found guilty by a jury of peers, then governor and likely klan member Greg Abbott pardoned him.
Here’s a quote from Daniel Perry on social media before he murdered someone at a BLM protest in cold blood:
“I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.”
And
The friend replied to Perry, “Can you catch me a negro daddy", and Perry responded, “That is what I am hoping.”
Abbott pretended it was a self defense killing when Perry drove up, shot his victim who was pushing his girlfriend’s wheelchair, the drove off. It didn’t hold up in court so he lied about it in his pardon. Murderers and would-be slavers, Abbott and Perry deserve a long drop and a short rope. Pardons are a mockery of justice by jury decision.
I just realized that the knowledge I have from newspapers from my youth no longer applies. They no longer put the most pertinent info near the top, but at the bottom. Burying the lede is just the default nowadays.
The governor pardoned him almost immediately after the jury came back.
Pictures of the victim and his family/friends, no pictures of the dickhead or his piece of shit father in either article. Interesting.
Image search of Harris Jacobs Joe Jacobs brings them all up if you want. I’m not likely to run into them from 3000 miles away.
But if I did, I wouldn’t flee the scene like a coward.
I’m sure the pictures are not hard to find, which speaks to the journalism.
And the influence over it.
Holy shit, that article is tedious to read. Nowadays “good writing” seems to mean “jump around in the timeline a lot and write a whole lot of irrelevant backstory”.
The Tarantino Method, they call it.
The writer needs AI to pad the words in an article, and the reader needs AI to sum up an article quickly.
Maybe it was an AI?
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Its clear pardons are a major component of institutionalized corruption and should have some kind of formal review process by legislative bodies.
Imo if you attempt a pardon, and are overruled by either a majority of the state Congress or subsequently a majority of your electorate. You may split the sentence between yourselves equally.
And federal pardons should simply be abolished.
The power of the pardon is so fucking stupid. Make prosecutors and cops and judges accountable for legal malpractice, and make legislators include negating convictions as part of legislation that changes a law.
I really like the idea of invalidating the law if a pardon was issued. I immediately wonder how fascists would use it as a weapon somehow.
They pardon someone for being a pedo.
Maybe your plan wouldn’t work so well.
Pardon election interference?
I just don’t understand, are these politicians really that stupid? You do shit like this when the general public is more cognizant of distrust in government institutions, you start building factories for more Luigis. If your average normies are experiencing a noticeable and tangible decrease in standard of living, are personally and physically seeing more live protests, are constantly seeing a stream of authoritarian moves from the government, and you pile on this blatant miscarriage of justice seen from both major parties, where do you think people are gonna turn to for justice? And when you’re this public and blatant about it, who’s head is on the spike first, historically speaking? I really don’t think everyone is prepared for the consequences of continuing down this road, because participation in the consequences will likely be much more mandatory than they have been historically.
They believe they can get away with it because nothing that bad has happened yet. Like most people, they don’t think it long term consequences and these things build up over time, build momentum until they can’t stop it. But then it’s too late.
It doesn’t help that like most people they’re comparing themselves with their neighbors and peer group to try and outdo each other. And in their case it’s not who holds the best backyard barbeque but it’s a gala on their yacht. And like most people don’t think too much about the cow who’s meat is now on the grill, they don’t think about a few thousand workers they swindled out of their wage.
We can not allow 2 justice systems to exit. If the law isnt equal for all, then what is it? What is the point?
The government wants our taxes, but refuses to represent us or protect us. Thats not what i signed up for. Thats not american. Thats not worth defending.
you already have 2 systems… it’s time to act to destroy them and fix it
Oppression and control. Protection of the wealthy from the poor.
To go further, it IS worthy of contempt, hatred, and VIOLENCE DESTRUCTION.
OPPRESSION MUST BE MET WITH AN EQUAL OR GREATER REACTION. EVERY TIME.
Here is another case of a connected rich man killing a poor innocent, and going scot free. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbwU3J-2kk
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
To be fair, pardons exist for cases such as The Hurricane
With great pardon power comes great pardon responsibility
I think also hesitency
