This is not okay

[trinityvixen]

Why does it take the judge being corrupt to make this not okay?

The kids are all right. Until a bunch of self-righteous pricks overcriminalize them. Then we create problems that we didn't have before.

Listen to some of the audio from the victims. The last two are especially frightening. These were two kids who hadn't done anything wrong at all, and they got punished.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The fact that there's no mechanism to prevent this sort of abuse (of justice, rather than arresting them for abusing the system for monetary gain) says that something is horribly wrong here.

My thoughts exactly. There ought to be some kind of referendum that wasn't entirely left up to voters or what not as to whether people like this keep their jobs. But there didn't seem to be.

I don't know whether it would have been better if they'd have been caught by someone with money's lawyer or the way they were--budgetary concerns, it seems. Neither seems all that laudatory given that you would have hoped someone who saw how hopeless this system was would have raised a fuss long before the outright corruption got these men in trouble.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

See, I can totally understand that the vast majority of people screwed by this had no recourse--the majority of juvenile offenders come from poor families, after all, and it's pretty much a given in our society that the poor are fucked. I think it's particularly telling when the relatively rich/well-connected have to shrug their shoulders and say, "Oh well, they win, bend over and take it."