12-11-2017, 05:23 PM
(12-11-2017, 05:16 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: It's also very uncommon for a first time felon to literally live broadcast their crime to the entire internet.
Stealing a car, using it to kidnap a mentally disabled person for TWO DAYS while they tortured him with punches, kicks, knives, making them drink from a toilet bowl, while shouting racist things at them while laughing and broadcasting it to the world with pride. That's not a "oh, it's your first time, so lets not throw you in prison because you might still turn out to be a good person". At that point, as an adult already, you're pretty much decided. If you have it in you to do that, you're NEVER going to be reformed.
The judge said he wasn't putting her in jail because he "I'm not sure you'd be coming out any better". That's not how it's supposed to work, because now there's a victim out there who's kidnapper/torturer got off with a slap on the wrist. She got 200 hours of community service and 4 years probation/4 year ban from social media for kidnapping, torture, and hate crime.
You're preaching to the choir here, I'm just telling you how things work.
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Quote:She doesn't need to testify against the others because they are literally recording themselves doing it. It was never a question of if they were innocent or not. That's what makes this case "uncommon".
This isn't true at all. If you want a custodial sentence then every shred of evidence you can get is helpful. Getting one of the four to flip is a good way to ensure prison time for the other three.
Quote:The only thing the prosecution needs to do is press play on the video, let it run for the jury, and then press stop on the video and tell the judge the prosecution rests. That would be it.
I get what you're saying, but it's considerably more complicated than that.
