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do you guys understand that revenge-driven justice is devoid of any inherent or derived value - and you're just saying, "yeah, but it would feel better, emotionally, if these people were dead"? i don't know if your motives are obvious to you or not.
not to mention, this isn't the governments' purpose - to create its own rules that lets it have mortal dominion over its citizens.
not to mention, this isn't the governments' purpose - to create its own rules that lets it have mortal dominion over its citizens.
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I do, yes.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyre ... rrest.html
Stuff like this is why I pretty much don't get up in arms where there are cases of police brutality, of the non-death type. They're dealing with stuff like this when they're probably just trying to do their damn job.Cellphone video of New York City police officers ignoring people who brazenly dumped water on them went viral this week, escalating a debate about how much abuse officers should tolerate in an age when they have been ordered to show restraint.
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isn't that how our justice system is supposed to work though? without a doubt? if there's doubt on any of the death row inmates, not only should they not be on death row, they should be free
In cases like this, where there is no doubt, I'd be totally OK with it.
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Beyond reasonable doubt is not beyond all doubt
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yes.. I'm not a lawyer but proving anything with 0 doubt seems a little unlikelyBeyond reasonable doubt is not beyond all doubt
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My recollection here was that the scientists were junk, not the science, i.e. fabricating bogus results.You have the FBI sending out expert witnesses to testify that their hair, bite mark, and arson evidence was proof beyond all reasonable doubt, only for it to come out that all such evidence was junk science.
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I think some here wouldn't approve of the death penalty even if there were conclusive evidence (video, etc.), no? Nothing wrong with that.
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Witnesses and an on-the-scene confession explaining his motive? Yeah, I have 0 doubt about the guy I referenced...yes.. I'm not a lawyer but proving anything with 0 doubt seems a little unlikelyBeyond reasonable doubt is not beyond all doubt
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The scientists might have been junk, but so is the "science."My recollection here was that the scientists were junk, not the science, i.e. fabricating bogus results.You have the FBI sending out expert witnesses to testify that their hair, bite mark, and arson evidence was proof beyond all reasonable doubt, only for it to come out that all such evidence was junk science.
Bite Marks:
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/07/whi ... k-science/
Hair (not DNA, this is hair microscopy):THE PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL of Advisors on Science and Technology has concluded that forensic bite-mark evidence is not scientifically valid and is unlikely ever to be validated, according to a draft report obtained by The Intercept. The report, titled “Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods,” is marked as a “predecisional” draft created August 26 that is not to be quoted or distributed, though the title page suggests the report will be made public sometime this month.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180955070/
Arson:In what The Guardian has called a “judicial catastrophe” of epic proportions, the FBI and Justice Department have admitted that in over 95 percent of trials revisited in a historic review, agents gave flawed testimony based on the pseudoscience of hair analysis.
Spencer S. Hsu at The Washington Post broke the story late last week, reporting that the extent of the problem was unveiled during a review of thousands of cases in which forensic testimony led to a conviction. These included 268 trials that incorporated microscopic hair analysis, a pseudoscientific technique in which forensic experts use microscopes to “match” hairs found on crime scenes to defendants.
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/arti ... cades_of_m
Lee’s case is by no means unique, says renowned fire scientist John Lentini, who has seen a lot of bad science applied to arson investigations in his 40-plus years studying fires. But Lentini, who testified as an expert on Lee’s behalf on appeal, says Lee’s case is one of the worst he’s seen.
Lentini got involved in the early 1990s after a colleague sent him a transcript of the trial. He was so incensed by what he read that he called Lee’s lawyer and offered to work on the case for free. But the lawyer said that wouldn’t be necessary because Lee’s supporters in the Korean-American community raised enough money to cover his legal fees.
Lentini says prosecutors employed nearly every fire science myth in the book. “It’s the ultimate triumph of junk science,” he says.
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16 Camp Pendleton Marines arrested on human smuggling and drug-related allegations
All from 1/5. Any 5AF connections?
Oorah?The arrests took place during battalion formation in a “public display for the entire unit to see,” the Marine Corps said.
All from 1/5. Any 5AF connections?
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Freddy has been absent for a while...
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I never got to play Hollywood Marine, so no. Poke me when the air wing does something.
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Kaiser was 1st Div, yes?
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Not a running tally, but here are a couple examples of added costs for a death penalty case after conviction, and the housing of a prisoner sentenced to death:I hear this time and again...do any of the links go from [minute after conviction] to [end of life]?
And let's not forget about appeals: in Idaho, the State Appellate Public Defenders office spent about 44 times more time on a typical death penalty appeal than on a life sentence appeal(downloads as a pdf): almost 8,000 hours per capital defendant compared to about 180 hours per non-death penalty defendant. New York state projected that the death penalty costs the state $1.8 million per case just through trial and initial appeal.
It costs more to house death penalty prisoners, as well. In Kansas, housing prisoners on death row costs more than twice as much per year ($49,380) as for prisoners in the general population ($24,690). In California, incarceration costs for death penalty prisoners totaled more than $1 billion from 1978 to 2011 (total costs outside of incarceration were another $3 billion). By the numbers, the annual cost of the death penalty in the state of California is $137 million compared to the cost of lifetime incarceration of $11.5 million.
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Do these calculations also factor in the costs of any legal settlements paid to exonorees?
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I'm almost certain they do not.
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If only there were some explanation as to why so many people—including many members of minority communities—dislike the police. I mean, I certainly cannot imagine the police engaging in any behavior that might justify that level of hatred.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyre ... rrest.html
Stuff like this is why I pretty much don't get up in arms where there are cases of police brutality, of the non-death type. They're dealing with stuff like this when they're probably just trying to do their damn job.Cellphone video of New York City police officers ignoring people who brazenly dumped water on them went viral this week, escalating a debate about how much abuse officers should tolerate in an age when they have been ordered to show restraint.
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If police are being harassed, they’re trained to immobilize/restrain. Beating and tasing people is typically just another example of this “justice” that everyone wants but doesn’t actually need.
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The point of tasing someone is to immobilize them
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Throwing water on a cop (or anyone for that matter) would technically be assault, right? If so, arrest them. But don't use it as an excuse the nearly beat to death people who haven't even been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime.
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I think it’s a tad overused, I suppose.The point of tasing someone is to immobilize them
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Is that what happened? They tased somebody for throwing water on them? The article was firewalled for me.
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No. The cops didn't do anything after getting water thrown on them, they simply walked away.Is that what happened? They tased somebody for throwing water on them? The article was firewalled for me.
But apparently it's things like having water thrown on them that make it okay for cops to brutalize people.
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Oh... okay. And now I see the blurb about them doing nothing - sorry about that.
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