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If he came from a different background of course there would have been a longer sentence. That is the point.
I'm equally disturbed by the idea of rich defendants skating because of their status, and by the third world prison conditions that persist, and are allowed to persist, in much of America. Neither excuses the other, but they both need to be addressed.
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It seems like nothing would outrage you if this doesn't.
I'm outraged that a man in California is doing 15-to-life for sucking on boys' toes. That sort of excess is much more common than a case of leniency like the OP.
Yes, he admitted it, with the condition that he would not serve jail time. Do you really think the state would have allowed him to plead out if they thought they could get more out of it ?
He pleaded out to do avoid months of media scrutiny
The state was trying to save money. and doing a favor for a prominent Democratic donor.
It's nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats. Delaware has always had a bad reputation. In 1882 Robert Ingersoll joked that God had originally designed oysters with legs, but took them off because nobody in Delaware would run to catch anything.
There is no "phony" Democrat war on women - that war is made manifest by Democrats who don't even try to hide their misogyny.
Unless you are a woman, which you are not, please don't speak for us. You may hear all sides of what women go through but until you are actually one you really have no say because you don't really know do you.
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