Comment on Never Forget

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Law Enforcement and the Justice System have every responsibility to enforce laws as they were given, JSTOR pressed charges and the US Government offered Auron a plea deal to reduce his sentence to 6 months.

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  • zik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron’s life a living hell and driving him to suicide?

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well if a Psychologist had helped him through it maybe he could have turned around and sued that prosecutor into disbarment.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yeah and maybe that prosecutor is tangentially responsible for his suicide now.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and the US government was almost definitely trying to make an example out of him: literally anybody who read the case details whatsoever.

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  • vfye@toast.ooo ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only prosecuting district attorneys can chose to bring a crimial charge to court.*

    *except in north carolina… for some reason they actually let victims prosecute.

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