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Antifar 05/14/17 7:27:48 PM #1: |
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/louisiana-can-t-afford-to-pay-for-jailhouse-lawyers-so-inmates-are-pleading-guilty?via=twitter_page
Michael Carter has spent more than a year and a half in jail waiting for a trial. Even still, the 27-year-old smiles easily when telling his story. His face is framed by an 8-by-4 inch window that separates the inmates at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison from their visitors. Like most people standing in the caged area of the visiting room, Carter is black. --- an aspirin the size of the sun. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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gunplagirl 05/14/17 7:33:07 PM #2: |
This of course plays hand in hand with for-profit prisons. Disgusting that they do such things to thousands of poor black people who are likely not even guilty but unable to have any defense to improve their odds of even getting a plea bargain.
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Blue_Inigo 05/14/17 7:35:50 PM #3: |
The system continues to work against black people
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prince_leo 05/14/17 7:37:05 PM #4: |
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yem69420 05/14/17 7:38:19 PM #5: |
I feel that Alabama (and Mississippi) get too much hate for being shithole southern states while for some reason no one ever mentions the murder/crime rates in Louisiana. There's parts of east N.O. you couldn't pay me to walk through at 8 am on a sunday. Hell I'll go to Harlem NY after dark and not be half as scared.
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glitteringfairy 05/14/17 7:39:12 PM #6: |
Because they are to busy wasting money trying to tear down statues
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southcoast09 05/14/17 7:39:24 PM #7: |
Louisiana is, has always been, and will always be, corrupt as you can imagine. It was a relief to move.
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yem69420 05/14/17 7:39:28 PM #8: |
Blue_Inigo posted...
The system continues to work against black people "Stop murdering each other so we can adequately represent you in a court of law please" --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Glass_Phantom 05/14/17 7:41:20 PM #9: |
It's a sad situation, and even sadder is that many "law and order" voters will choose to defend this sacrifice. They'll ask, "Why are we wasting money defending criminals when we could be spending that money educating our children...?" all the while failing to take into account the social cost of this, or the economic injustice of it, or the fact that the Constitution doesn't grant permission for people to suffer without legal counsel.
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gunplagirl 05/14/17 7:43:46 PM #10: |
glitteringfairy posted...
Because they are to busy wasting money trying to tear down statues That's actually being paid for by the state and not by fines collected from tickets and other infractions. --- Pokemon Moon FC: 1994-2190-5020 IGN: Vanessa ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yem69420 05/14/17 7:49:18 PM #11: |
gunplagirl posted...
glitteringfairy posted...Because they are to busy wasting money trying to tear down statues government money is government money when it really comes down to it. doesn't matter what deck the cards come out of to a certain extent. if the state wasn't wasting money tearing down memorials then they'd be able to give municipal courts more money. this is what happens when the whole world figures out you let murderers off after 60 days instead of actually charging them --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Axiom 05/14/17 7:51:00 PM #12: |
yem69420 posted...
Blue_Inigo posted...The system continues to work against black people "Who cares about the sixth amendment and the right to counsel" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yem69420 05/14/17 7:52:18 PM #13: |
Axiom posted...
yem69420 posted...Blue_Inigo posted...The system continues to work against black people "lets just let them go after 60 days because we have a fuckin warzone on our hands" --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Antifar 05/14/17 7:59:53 PM #14: |
yem69420 posted...
"lets just let them go after 60 days because we have a fuckin warzone on our hands" You are exaggerating the extent to which this is a thing that allows killers to get off free. https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/41ocsw/does_the_60_day_murder_still_happen_in_nola/?st=j2pd08c4&sh=f021688e http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_209f9030-41bd-570b-b32e-e7fd7ab87252.html --- an aspirin the size of the sun. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yem69420 05/14/17 8:09:18 PM #15: |
no, not really exaggerating (I know lack of witnesses and shit usually end up getting them cut)
i'm just saying, it is so fucking bad there, it is no wonder we can't get due process there public defenders are shit anyway lol. pd=long sentence i'm not against the courts, but fuck what should we do? make it like DC where the fed courts deal with it? hell the federal government doesn't have enough bullshit on their hands, just throw some more money down the toilet. can't put more money into law enforcement because that would cause more civil unrest lol --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Steve Nick 05/14/17 8:09:40 PM #16: |
they can afford to pay prosecutors tho?
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Gids_goft 05/14/17 8:10:46 PM #17: |
Steve Nick posted...
they can afford to pay prosecutors tho? No expense spared at tossing black people in jail. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PoopMcgee420 05/14/17 8:11:45 PM #18: |
glitteringfairy posted...
Because they are to busy wasting money trying to tear down statues This --- "Larry Brown has never won a championship." - bond21 Trump is my president. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yem69420 05/14/17 8:12:48 PM #19: |
Steve Nick posted...
they can afford to pay prosecutors tho? this is a good point. only difference is the prosecutor isn't some random lawyer that does something different, they work 24/7 for the government whereas a pd just does it because they usually have to in order to practice law in their town. one collects a salary and the other is paid case by case --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PoopMcgee420 05/14/17 8:13:53 PM #20: |
Gids_goft posted...
Steve Nick posted...they can afford to pay prosecutors tho? Yup lets not blame criminals --- "Larry Brown has never won a championship." - bond21 Trump is my president. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Gids_goft 05/14/17 8:17:45 PM #21: |
PoopMcgee420 posted...
Gids_goft posted...Steve Nick posted...they can afford to pay prosecutors tho? Don't want anything pesky like due process or the constitution getting in the way of tossing the blacks behind bars. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Kirby 05/14/17 8:21:30 PM #22: |
Public Defenders and Prosecutors having heavy case loads is nothing new and not just in Louisiana. If you can, go shadow one for a day. The majority of the time they get about 5 minutes to talk with a client before they move on to the next case. They have too many cases to deal with to spend copious amounts of time on any one case.
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QuantumScript 05/14/17 8:22:41 PM #23: |
Gids_goft posted...
PoopMcgee420 posted...Gids_goft posted...Steve Nick posted...they can afford to pay prosecutors tho? It's pretty racist that you think it's just black people who need public defenders ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Antifar 05/14/17 8:24:14 PM #24: |
No one's saying (or at least, they should not be saying) that everyone affected here is innocent, but the thing about our constitution is that it applies to the guilty, too.
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Tmaster148 05/14/17 8:24:57 PM #25: |
Kirby posted...
Public Defenders and Prosecutors having heavy case loads is nothing new and not just in Louisiana. If you can, go shadow one for a day. The majority of the time they get about 5 minutes to talk with a client before they move on to the next case. They have too many cases to deal with to spend copious amounts of time on any one case. The issue with Louisiana is that they pay for the public defenders from money made by sentencing people guilty. It's a conflict of interest and has helped create a system that pretty much sends poor people to jail, because their defenders want to get paid for their time and thus need you to be guilty. Louisiana is basically stepping on people's rights to a public defender. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PoopMcgee420 05/14/17 8:25:12 PM #26: |
Gids_goft posted...
PoopMcgee420 posted...Gids_goft posted...Steve Nick posted...they can afford to pay prosecutors tho? Tagged as racist --- "Larry Brown has never won a championship." - bond21 Trump is my president. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PoopMcgee420 05/14/17 8:26:28 PM #27: |
Blue_Inigo posted...
The system continues to work against black people Tagging @Blue_Inigo as racist --- "Larry Brown has never won a championship." - bond21 Trump is my president. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yem69420 05/15/17 1:30:06 AM #28: |
QuantumScript posted...
It's pretty racist that you think it's just black people who need public defenders people that are always crying about racism are usually the most racist themselves in my experience. --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Axiom 05/15/17 1:33:41 AM #29: |
yem69420 posted...
QuantumScript posted...It's pretty racist that you think it's just black people who need public defenders And here I thought liberals were the ones that cried racist when they have no defense ... Copied to Clipboard!
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yem69420 05/15/17 1:55:59 AM #30: |
Axiom posted...
And here I thought liberals were the ones that cried racist when they have no defense well it goes both ways but liberals usually use the "nazi" or "fascist" shit when they have no defense. They called still call Trump a racist without any real proof, but they call Trump a lot of things without any real proof so... --- psn, steam id: yem69420 origin id: yemman 360/xbone gt/uplay: cjpitt1985 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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