How is it tax payer funded when his pals are paying all the taxes?  I haven't seen any YouTube videos of people praising Jesus cause all the free shit they thought they were going to get:

https://youtu.be/Bg98BvqUvCc

http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_co … _favorably

52% favorability rating ?

My favorite was the CNN story on how if Trump is killed tomorrow an Obama cabinet appointee will be President. And they wonder why Trumo calls them garbage. Can you imagine if Fox ran that story in 2009?

Our prison system is fucked. Judges taking kick backs to convict longer sentences should be drawn and quartered. But again, it's not like people are being dragged off the streets for smoking a joint.

They hold up a liquor store with a gun and after they're arrested, maybe some cocaine is found on them. So that charge gets added. When you parse the convictions, this falls under the "drug related" and someone sees the 20 year sentence. He didn't get 20 years for snorting coke, he got 20 for armed robbery, was probably a felon already, so the gun charge makes it worse.

Should someone get 20 years for armed robbery?  I don't know, but that's where the discussion should be. Not trying to argue all these people are in prison for minor drug infractions.

But sign me up if you want to alter federal drug laws. I can't do anything if Mississippi wants to have laws that simple possession of pot carries 3 years no more than I can do anything if California wants to issue a 5 year sentence for owning an AR-15.

In my opinion the biggest contributor to sentencing is your lawyer. If you can afford a lawyer, you're going to have a better chance at a reduced sentence or dropped charges.  But if you get a public defender, you're fucked. I don't know the answer to this. Everyone wants Johnnie Cochran, but he's incredibly expensive and there are only so many hours in the day.

My brother got sentenced yesterday for felony firearm theft. He had a public defender and I've spent a lot of time in court the past few months.  It amazed me how people were filed in like cattle with one defender who had a 2 foot stack of casework on his desk, often going off the cuff. But I don't know the answer to this problem.

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