2021-04-02 at 7:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai
Is this normal? Aren't those charges like… mutually exclusive? Can you be found guilty of manslaughter and murder of the same person? I mean I wouldn't be surprised if it was normal or I'm misunderstanding something, but lol. "We aren't sure in what way you're criminally responsible, but we're pretty sure you did *something* wrong so we're just gonna charge you with 3 mutually exclusive charges and see which one, if any, sticks."
Probably just procedural lawyery stuff and obviously it's totally above board or the case wouldn't have proceeded, but it seems weird.
They usually just kinda see what sticks. This is normal here tho. Is it not normal there? Because how else would you differentiate between crimes? If he got proven innocent of murder they'd just have to charge him again for manslaughter. Better to do it in one go.
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Originally posted by Data
They usually just kinda see what sticks. This is normal here tho. Is it not normal there? Because how else would you differentiate between crimes? If he got proven innocent of murder they'd just have to charge him again for manslaughter. Better to do it in one go.
It's probably normal here too, I'm not super familiar with the courts. Just seems weird. I would expect the prosecution to have to charge a defendant with the crime they actually thought the defendant committed? Like if you aren't confident that defendant committed second degree murder, why are you charging them with second degree murder? And if you are confident that they committed second degree murder, why would you charge them with something else? The lack of confidence in the charges being brought against the suspect, but the willingness to bring those charges against them regardless... just feels... not particularly justified.
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2021-04-02 at 8:01 PM UTC
Wariat
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if your trans or a trans lover your fine star trek just ask bungie.
2021-04-02 at 8:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai
It's probably normal here too, I'm not super familiar with the courts. Just seems weird. I would expect the prosecution to have to charge a defendant with the crime they actually thought the defendant committed? Like if you aren't confident that defendant committed second degree murder, why are you charging them with second degree murder? And if you are confident that they committed second degree murder, why would you charge them with something else? The lack of confidence in the charges being brought against the suspect, but the willingness to bring those charges against them regardless… just feels… not particularly justified.
I mean its up to the prosecution. Most people don't follow criminal cases so they don't hear about this shit. They just see some headline in the news about charges or convictions or new evidence and they base their assumptions on that instead of actual court files which are publicly accessible in all 509 AMERIKAN states.
https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/find-case-pacerhttps://www.mncourts.gov/Access-Case-Records.aspxIt's not that they're confident, its just the prosecution throwing sticky frogs to the wall and seeing which stick. It's not even like super official its just some pre-set terms on paper. They can change the charge mid-court and it doesn't matter. The point is to find out the truth, not to stick to some arbitrary set definitions of crimes. They would never get anything done if you couldn't apply charges liberally as situation depends.
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2021-04-02 at 8:11 PM UTC
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most people also dont care what happens to pollacks or polish immigrants if they ever hit the courts in any of those states fo they?
2021-04-02 at 8:12 PM UTC
Wariat
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they also domt care if miscarriage of justice or hiding evidence or things like perjury happen do they? thwt is if youre a white male or a pollack and not a tranny shagger thwt is.
2021-04-02 at 8:29 PM UTC
Wariat I did not read your posts and I never will thank you go kill yourself
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2021-04-02 at 8:36 PM UTC
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yea but you have to agree its true tho.
2021-04-02 at 8:44 PM UTC
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hey star trek have you ever cooked a fish for a woman?
2021-04-02 at 8:45 PM UTC
I told you not to thank my posts ever the fuck again.
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