The “feel good” story of the day!
I find that increasingly so, swallowing what people do to other human burns all the way down.
What the…
How do you…
Why can’t the…
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OK, I’m taking up a collection for the bullet for this Erwin fellow, who’s in?
Wow. Just to play the Devil’s advocate, the prosecutors must have thought they would have a really hard time proving the case and decided probation was better than acquittal. From the sound of it, the defense had an argument that the guy just threw a match at the victim and didn’t know that he was set aflame; assholish to be sure, but maybe not assaultive under state law there, or too tenous to trust taking to a jury. I’ll bet they would have tried for prison time here, though.
Well, the important thing is, nobody was using drugs. We’ve got to hold space in the jails for the REAL criminals, you know!
So…this guy sets another guy on fire and has to pay some bills and get a little verbal abuse (presumably) from the victim’s family…and Martha Stewart is going to jail?
Can’t we cane this guy or something?
Yeah, it would be shame if to put this guy away they had a free a really dangerous man like Tommy Chong to make room. I don’t know how I’d sleep at night knowing Chong was out there somewhere, selling people glassware.
Hey! Don’t kid about shit like that! My second cousin was killed by an alembic!
Fucking A.
This is like the goddamn Twinkie defense writ large.
“I was drunk, so you can’t send me to jail”
If you’re all so angry why don’t you, instead of useless whining, go out and do something? Like set Erwin on fire maybe. It’s already pretty clear you won’t be punished much.
He isn’t homeless.
You want him to go directly to jai … alai camp? I fail to see how sending him to jai alai camp is going to rehabilitate him, although I suppose it couldn’t be a bad thing if a pelota hit him on the head at 100 mph.
From the cite in the OP:
There was little evidence therefore he could not face the maximum penalty. Simple.
Do you want a justice system that works by the rules, or do you want lynch mobs to be responsible for meting out ‘justice’.
Well?
Lynch mob.
No, wait…
Yeah, lynch mob.