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"I meant to do that."
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If I punch a guy in the dick - it’s not attempted punching because he didn’t die. Even if I do it every day for a month.
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It’s really weird to joke about punching people in the genitals.
Beyond this:
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poisoning people is immoral, wrong, and illegal (I guess this needs to be said again?)
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giving people a “weekend” sentence for poisoning someone is a miscarriage of justice
Is there a place we can send money to support the appeal in this legal case? Anyone know?
Prosecutors called the 60-day sentence "a slap in the face” and said they’re planning to appeal the decision.
“You shouldn’t be able to commit at 15 year-felony by poisoning someone and only have to serve weekends,” Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith said. “It’s unbelievable to me.”
I’ve sent a request to Eric Smith - Macomb County Prosecuting Attorney Eric J. Smith - Macomb County Prosecuting Attorney to see if we can send money to crowdfund and support the appeal. Will update as I hear back.
Defendants get to appeal- victims don’t. Double jeopardy and all that.
Who’s joking? It’s an apt comparison.
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People who don’t take the assault, abuse and victimization of women seriously, because it doesn’t directly affect them?
Just a guess.
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I’m taking it so seriously I have $100 set aside to help fund the appeal. How about you?
(Not sure if the prosecutor who plans to appeal will get back to me, but that’s the plan. I guess if he doesn’t get back to me, I’ll donate to an abuse and victimization fund, and provide the evidence of said action.)
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This sentence is so low it’s absurd.
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The judge’s name must be made public. He must be held accountable for his decision by the citizens of whatever district he is a judge for.
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No fair showing the pic right away! Last time this was posted on BB we had to speculate as this gentleman’s skin color (with that sentence? are you kidding?)
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Judge Antonio Viviano
Retired judge. Case was transferred to him.
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While you’re looking for the judge’s name to add to the post you might want to edit the title. "Gentleman’ doesn’t seem a good fit. If he is out on his own recognizance during the week presumably he has to wear a sign around his neck warning people about his lack of moral judgement.
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It does if you’re in on the joke. Around these parts, a “gentleman” is never a gentleman.
It’s not that he has a messiah complex or anything. It’s just the talking interferes with his ability to hear the sad trombone.
Right? So much for his plans to moonlight as a Starbucks barista on weekends.
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Looks like the judge is a rehab sucker. He starts ranting about it with 13:20 left or so in the video.
He was worried that the defendant would re-enter society as a “hardened criminal” if he got time.
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< sarcasm > Don’t worry, he only poisoned a woman, no one important. It’s not like he attacked another man! </ sarcasm >
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Article here on how the prosecuter was concerned about the judge being too lenient prior to the trial: https://www.macombdaily.com/news/copscourts/macomb-prosecutor-seeks-prison-time-for-shelby-township-man-who/article_3ca2be74-b3b3-11e9-bd95-535039cbea9b.html
“This defendant deserves nothing less than a prison cell for his actions and that is what we will be stressing to Judge Viviano Thursday morning or we will be appealing the sentence, plain and simple,” Smith said in the release.
There’s an anti-ad blocker thing in place, but if you have an article reading mode, you can select the text and do a +1 Caesarean shift. Yes, really.
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wot?
spare chars
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