Two. Systems. Of. Justice.

[soothsayer]

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Eliza Orlins
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Robert Sanford, alleged to have thrown a fire extinguisher at police during the Capitol insurrection, will be released pretrial with a GPS monitor.

As a public defender, I represented a man sent to jail for allegedly stealing cans of baby formula.

Two. Systems. Of. Justice.

[onecaliberal]

1. This!

The law has been grotesquely abused.
Starting to wonder if they’re all going to walk.

[WarGamer]

3. It's not going to be an easy set of prosecutions.

For one, a lot of the accused are charged with the same offense that a Code Pink individual gets charged with when they disrupt Congress. It's a very light offense.

Two, the more serious and violent charges may be plea bargained down to avoid a trial. Why avoid a trial, you may ask?

Simple answer:

1) Change of Venue Requests. They move the trial 50 miles out of town into "Burning Cross County" and it's a done deal.

2) Jury consultants. Try explaining to an appellate Court why you wouldn't allow Trump voters on a jury.

3) The trials themselves will be bad for the nation. They will argue that they did nothing worse than protestors during the Summer of 2020 and are being unfairly treated. It will be a clusterfuck.

I'm hopeful that the professional Gov't prosecutors nail some ass to a wall... but I'm not optimistic.

[onecaliberal]

4. In other words the law does not apply to elected republicans.

[Lucky Luciano]

6. Oh that's so depressing. I want 20+ years in Florence for all of those worthless shitstains.

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R for exposure

[niyad]

5. KNR

[sheshe2]

7. No Words.

[Archae]

8. Was he actually stealing baby formula for a baby?

I used to know a guy who stole cans of baby formula to sell them on the street for his drug habit.

I lost track of him after he was caught as a habitual offender.

Was the guy you represented like this?

[PufPuf23]

9. That this pattern still exists makes me weary and so fed up

with the natures of so many others.

The pattern is everywhere. Entitled predators walk.

[The Roux Comes First]

10. "Pathetic" is the First Word That Comes to My Mind When it Comes to Our Intelligence Community's

Planning for and response to this travesty.

And of course with the corruption that the yam exhibited, introduced into the system with his sorry, unqualified sycophantic appointments (looking at you, Barr), and fostered, it is tough to put much faith in the FBI and senior decision-makers throughout the system spending nearly as much energy on digging out and revealing the dirt as they will be covering their asses.

[greenjar_01]

11. Most people should get ROR or very low bail

The point is to extend that to the baby formula guy, not to extend exorbitant cash bail to the fire extinguisher guy.