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Who is facing years for touching floating paint chips? Link to article?
https://abcnews.com/Politics/olympian-arrested-reflecting-pool-damage/story?id=134078925
According to this, the charge is vandalism in DC Superior Court. That would be a misdemeanor, carrying less than 1 year in prison.
I wasn't able to find a case entry in DC Superior Court's docket system.
Unlike what most people seem to think, the US criminal court system is not broken in such a manner that would allow someone to go to prison for years for this. Trump prosecutors have a reputation for poor performance in court. All the competent prosecutors have quit or were pushed out for failing to prosecute obviously loser cases or sign legally unsound court filings. All that are left are the idiot Trump loyalists whose only experience in criminal law is being arrested for drink driving.
Grand juries refuse to indict these defendants for obviously trivial crimes, and trial juries will acquit.
They tried to charge someone with assaulting a federal agent for lobbing a sandwich at a Border Patrol goon during a protest. The Trump-appointed chief prosecutor in Washington made a TikTok about how they were coming down hard on protestors. It went to trial. The jury acquitted.
I remind that juries have to be drawn from the local area (i.e. Washington, DC) and the city hates Trump's guts. He lost by over 80 percentage points in the last election there.
People have spent decades in prison for a bit of weed. It's pretty fucked and I fully expect this person to spend at least a couple years in prison. It's fascist dictator shit and this is a fascist dictatorship.
I'll be willing to make a wager with you. If David Hearn is sentenced to at least 12 months imprisonment in this case, I will donate $20 to an international human rights charity of your choice. If their case is dismissed, he is acquitted, or he is sentenced to less than 12 months imprisonment, you have to donate $20 or equivalent in your currency to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Do you agree?
No, because that's a meaningless gesture on an anonymous website, and I will be goddamned before I give any money to any charity that I haven't personally vetted considering half of them participate actively in some genocide or other. Anyways I'm glad you have this level of faith in our criminal legal system (it isn't a justice system when none is to be had) but all it takes is a maga prosecutor and a maga judge and it's done. The rule of law is dead; republicans have lynched it slowly over the last 50 years.
You're free to propose alternative charities. Maybe even a local food bank or some organisation. The point is: I'm happy to put my money where my mouth is, and I don't think you are. In fact, even if you lose the bet, I don't think you'd do it anyway. After all, I'm just some guy on the Internet.
I don't have "faith" in the US legal system. I just know more than you about how it works and how it doesn't.
How it's supposed to work but we've clearly passed that point. If the US legal system functioned Trump wouldn't have been eligible to run, because he wasn't. They've been making up their own rules without any legal consequence of substance for twenty fucking years, give your fucking balls a tug.
If you think you're right, you're more than welcome to take me up on my wager and win $20 for the charity of your choice.
Dumb virtue signaling.
Because a random internet asshole would follow through? Right.
No, I don't think you'd follow through. I also think you knew you were going to lose that wager.
We're both internet assholes but only one of us trusts a corrupt and broken legal system.
Got some clever bullshit in response to what they did to Daniel Sanchez-Estrada? You think they won't try that with Hearn I've got a bridge to sell you.