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Jan 3 2020 11:11pm
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/27/us/texas-man-escapes-jail-trnd/index.html
Yeah i am not posting about this guy getting caught, i noticed while reading the article this guy was arrested for having some pot and a possible burglary, ended up in a scuffle with the police and got 70 years for assault on a police officer..
How is this possible without any bodies in the ground?
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Jan 4 2020 12:49am
Quote (Plaguefear @ Jan 4 2020 12:11am)
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/27/us/texas-man-escapes-jail-trnd/index.html
Yeah i am not posting about this guy getting caught, i noticed while reading the article this guy was arrested for having some pot and a possible burglary, ended up in a scuffle with the police and got 70 years for assault on a police officer..
How is this possible without any bodies in the ground?


You can have an unarmed corpse and a smoking gun with no arrest here m8, And people will still complain you weren't coddled enough.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 4 2020 12:50am
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Jan 13 2020 02:48am
and then they nuked their own plane
just to demonstrate their total disregard for whatever they might consider to be human life
even the crows know to stand in the shoulder on the highway
even the animals know how to act properly
less than animal.
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Jan 13 2020 03:54am
Quote (Plaguefear @ Jan 3 2020 11:11pm)
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/27/us/texas-man-escapes-jail-trnd/index.html
Yeah i am not posting about this guy getting caught, i noticed while reading the article this guy was arrested for having some pot and a possible burglary, ended up in a scuffle with the police and got 70 years for assault on a police officer..
How is this possible without any bodies in the ground?


Its possible because he was on his third felony strike
Serial felons tend to get put away for life. He committed a felony aggravated robbery, then a felony theft, and finally when police caught him in the middle of another burglary, he tried to run, then once they caught up with him, he violently struggled with police and punched, kicked and tried to injure the officers by targeting his attacks on their genitals, leading to moderate injuries to the two officers. When they went to arrest him, it was after citizens called it in seeing him go up the street rattling doors on cars and homes to see if they were unlocked to get inside, and when they arrived he had broken into a cabin and was burglarizing it.
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Jan 13 2020 03:58am
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Its possible because he was on his third felony strike
Serial felons tend to get put away for life. He committed a felony aggravated robbery, then a felony theft, and finally when police caught him in the middle of another burglary, he tried to run, then once they caught up with him, he violently struggled with police and punched, kicked and tried to injure the officers by targeting his attacks on their genitals, leading to moderate injuries to the two officers. When they went to arrest him, it was after citizens called it in seeing him go up the street rattling doors on cars and homes to see if they were unlocked to get inside, and when they arrived he had broken into a cabin and was burglarizing it.


He could have killed 3 people and got less.
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Jan 13 2020 04:07am
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He could have killed 3 people and got less.


And he could have killed 3 people and gotten the death penalty. Its Texas.
Sentences have to factor in the protection of the public and likelihood of rehabilitation. Someone who commits a single murder of passion or bad judgment after living with a clean record might have a better chance to reform than someone who has led an entire life of crime and preys upon every exploitable weakness of the public the second he's out of prison and violently attacks strangers and the police, even if the latter never seriously injured anyone. The general rule, often codified into law, is three strikes you're out. After someone commits their third felony, they're usually considered a lost cause.
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Jan 13 2020 04:17am
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And he could have killed 3 people and gotten the death penalty. Its Texas.
Sentences have to factor in the protection of the public and likelihood of rehabilitation. Someone who commits a single murder of passion or bad judgment after living with a clean record might have a better chance to reform than someone who has led an entire life of crime and preys upon every exploitable weakness of the public the second he's out of prison and violently attacks strangers and the police, even if the latter never seriously injured anyone. The general rule, often codified into law, is three strikes you're out. After someone commits their third felony, they're usually considered a lost cause.

There are some pretty pathetic things that count as felonies.
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Jan 13 2020 06:28am
Quote (Plaguefear @ Jan 13 2020 05:17pm)
There are some pretty pathetic things that count as felonies.


Do we need those kind of idiots in our communities. IMO it's not a bad thing to have them do some serious time. Downside is that they're still a burden cuz taxpayers pay for their sorry lives behind bars ^^
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Jan 13 2020 06:42am
Quote (Plaguefear @ Jan 13 2020 05:17am)
There are some pretty pathetic things that count as felonies.


Anything with prison time over 1 year is a felony. Three strikes are problematic because it is the political system taking power from experts and that always sucks.

With this law three years could turn into decades.

Experts in this case being judges.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 13 2020 06:49am
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Jan 13 2020 09:54am
Three strikes laws are too rigid, particularly when they also apply to non-violent crime.

But while I consider 70 years to be way excessive in this case, I do support harsh sentences on serial criminals with a low chance of rehabilitation.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 13 2020 09:54am
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