I don’t think it’s his account, but he does have some whacko fans.
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I recognize that judge’s name: Aaron Persky. Back in 2000, I was on a jury in a trial where the State of California was suing an SVP (sexually violent predator) to have him locked up for another two years in the state mental hospital.
Persky was the lead prosecutor in that case, and he was all out for winning it. He even polled the jury afterwards to inquire about how the trial went, what he could have done better, etc, etc. Real go getter in the DA’s office of sexual crimes. Until now, I guess.
Check it out, I still have Aaron’s business card from back then.
BTW, we spent two full weeks in that trial, listening to the horrible life of the guy they were suing, the stupid stuff he did, it ended in a mistrial, some kind of legal technicality that I didn’t quite get. What a freakin’ waste of our time, and our taxpayer dollars, because the whole process had to start from scratch again.
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Frankly, the convicted felon and sex offender, provided he isn’t given a was to clear his record, will, over his lifetime, cost him far more than a year or two more in prison. I don’t claim to know what fair is, but if in a decade he’s still a convicted sex offender and felon, that’s at least ball park good enough.
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Opening line:
In a tragic miscarriage of justice, Brock has been found guilty by some betas who probably never got any play in college.
There are not enough facepalms in the world. Where’s that head rolling back and forth across the keyboard gif? Even that’s not enough, though.
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Did you see the narrative about the $150,000 bail being an insignificant amount of money for his parents because they have jobs and don’t spend their $$ on rims and drugs? 
Jeebus F. Christ.
(eta: The narrative on his fan’s Facebook page, that is.)
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I know one judge I won’t be voting for in the fall. If it had been Aaron Persky’s or Scott Herhold’s daughter, you can bet they would have sung a different tune.
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Ok, so the guy is clearly guilty, with a sentence ranging from nothing to 6 years, which is what the prosecution asked for. He got 6 months. What would have been a more appropriate sentence? A year? 3 years? all 6 years? … death?
I agree that 6 months is clearly on the lenient side, but how often in prosecuting cases do you get the actual sentence the prosecutors ask for, or anything close to it? I assume a “realistic” sentence expectation would have been, say, 3 years?
Depends on how much money you have and what crime you’re charged with.
Plea bargaining means higher sentences for defendants who go to trial. In 2012, the average sentence of federal drug offenders convicted after trial was three times higher (16 years) than that received after a guilty plea (5 years and 4 months).
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Well I do. They simply are not ones I can speak in polite company or really at all without risking feeding already high anger to the point I become even more unreasoning than I normally am.
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“I don’t want my body anymore,” she said. “I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else.”
damn
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Well, take heart in the fact you’re not standing alone. As bad as my family is… as bad as my stepdad can be. He’s disgusted by this. Sees it as cowardly and inherently evil.
…and this is a guy that takes a boys will be boys approach to a lot of shit, supports trump, sucks regan’s rotted dick, and uses ‘liberal’ as a swear word.
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He’s rich, white, and a former athlete. Wow, I’m surprised they didn’t arrest her. 
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Easy. Establishment of guilt/innocence and sentencing as two entirely separate trials. We already break the trial down into a few distinct phases- Just take that a step further.
Everything up through the jury verdict remains the same- But instead of that same judge imposing sentencing, the case is handed over to a new judge/jury whose only duty is to determine an appropriate penalty. They could do this based on a summary that omits any prejudicial details- No names or occupations, and statements like “attempted to flee the jurisdiction during the investigation” that leave out whether the means was a Greyhound bus or a private jet.
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I dunno, Swedish prison doesn’t look too bad. I’d rather spend two years there than one night in an American jail. (Evidently Saddam Hussein requested to be held in Sweden but was denied.)
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I’m outraged, no question. But…
What of coming at this from the other side? Is there any public support for “Emily Doe”? Considering her rapist has a fan page, there must be some sort of forum out there for the girl. Maybe we can redirect some of our anger to support for the victim, especially if replies to news articles are the only form of “public forum” currently.
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Where’s all this concern for the impact on an offender’s life when it comes to those found ‘guilty’ of drug ‘offenses’?
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And often on what complexion your skin tone happens to be, as well.[quote=“Snowlark, post:74, topic:79075”]
Still not enough, but it’s a start:
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I’m totally swiping that, thanks.
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Good question!
I am, sadly,broke. However you have any recommendations on what kind of funding page we should throw together? I mean i seriously do not know what service to poke at for something like this and would like some suggestions before i try setting a page up so everyone else can pitch money in.
Would people donate if I put a page together and posted links?
The judge is on California’s ballot this year - use your vote!
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