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[Argent Stonecutter]

I've never really understood the "no contest" plea.

It's technically the same as a guilty plea but it sounds better. It's about saving face.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thread.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Going to the DMV to get a state-issued ID which you can only get at the DMV - that's definitely suspicious as hell right there. This needs to be investigated thoroughly. Thoroughly!

 

[Arkady Arkright]

We don't have them in the UK-- the defendant is innocent until proven guilty,

Is that entirely true ? I thought the Scots had a verdict available of Not Proven - i.e "We're pretty sure you did it, we just can't prove it".

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Is that entirely true ? I thought the Scots had a verdict available of Not Proven - i.e "We're pretty sure you did it, we just can't prove it".

That's a verdict, not a plea... and in the US would be the same as innocent because of that "innocent until proven guilty" thing is a real thing.

 

[Rose Karuna]

That's a verdict, not a plea... and in the US would be the same as innocent because of that "innocent until proven guilty" thing is a real thing if you're rich.

Edited for reality.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

In this case, it doesn't matter if you're poor, you still wouldn't get a "not proven" verdict.

You'd get "guilty", but you wouldn't get "not proven".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Is that entirely true ? I thought the Scots had a verdict available of Not Proven - i.e "We're pretty sure you did it, we just can't prove it".

They do, but it's still Not Guilty. There's an interesting history of the triple verdict system here -- Blog: No, 'not proven' did not come first -- and as I understand it in 2017 the Scottish Government commisioned a two year study on whether or not to keep it.

 

[Arkady Arkright]

That's a verdict, not a plea... and in the US would be the same as innocent because of that "innocent until proven guilty" thing is a real thing.

I was talking about Innula's statement, not the No Contest issue.

 

[Arilynn]

They say noise causes cancer. You all are doomed.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

They say noise causes cancer. You all are doomed.

*throws up hands*

Well, that's it. Literally everything causes cancer. The State of California was right!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

‘Close your legs?’: Judge may be suspended over questions he asked an alleged rape victim | Washington Post

Did he seriously ask that? I mean, seriously???

 

[Free]

Stringer On Child Sex Trafficking: I Don’t Think It Does ‘Damage,’ ‘Part Of The Experience’

Disgraced ex-state Rep. David Stringer’s (R-AZ) history of disturbing comments on child sex trafficking have come to light as part...

talkingpointsmemo.com

According to documents obtained by the Arizona Republic, Stringer told an activist in 2018 that he doesn’t believe sex trafficking does “damage” to the children and that he doesn’t “like to demonize it.”

“If an uncle takes his niece or nephew to a playground, and they go on the merry-go-round and have some ice cream, and then do their thing, that’s just part of the experience,” he added.

Around the same time, he made alarming comments to a school administrator in the context of an internship where he worked with children learning to speak English.

“I like being a daddy figure for the little girls when they sit on my lap,” he reportedly said.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Stringer On Child Sex Trafficking: I Don’t Think It Does ‘Damage,’ ‘Part Of The Experience’

Disgraced ex-state Rep. David Stringer’s (R-AZ) history of disturbing comments on child sex trafficking have come to light as part...

talkingpointsmemo.com

He needs to be locked up and handed over to Bubba. Let's see how HE likes the "experience"!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm hoping the day comes in my lifetime where prison rape jokes are as not okay as any other rape joke.

 

[Ryanna Enfield]

My agreement is to Rep. Stringer needing to be locked up.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I wasn't making a joke. I was pointing out that if that turdbucket wants to go on record of minimalizing the "experience" of sexual assault victims, perhaps he should get a taste of his own medicine and see how much it adds to his own "experience".