Forget it, Jake. It’s Texas.
Chronos:
This particular case was for a particularly stupid reason, but people spending that long in jail for crimes they didn’t commit is really, really common. Jail is primarily for holding suspects before their trial, and the right to a speedy trial is basically ignored by our justice system,
I saw a Youtube short where a defendant was being ill-served by his public defender and the prosecutor kept delaying the trial and he stayed in jail. When he finally got a day in court on some preliminary hearing after a year he told the judge what was happening. The judge got angry at the defendant telling him how he should have notified the judge and if he knew what was going on he would never allow that to happen. The defendant said he had notified the court … numerous times. The judge said not my fault and somehow still tried to victim blame the defendant.
Saint_Cad:
DEI at work?
Well, it is promoting diversity I guess. Let’s wrongfully kill innocent people from all walks of life.
Just like, “I’m not racist because I have a black friend.” it’s “We’re not racist because we killed a white dude.”
Monty
September 23, 2025, 3:50am
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I contemplated putting this in the evil mofo thread or the stupid mofo thread. But the sentence clinched it for me.
This is definitely a miscarriage of justice.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island judge on Monday sentenced a former high school basketball coach to a year of probation after he spent decades asking hundreds of male student-athletes if they were “shy or not shy” before asking them to get naked so he could check their body fat.
Earlier this year, a jury found Aaron Thomas not guilty of second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault in a case that scrutinized the so-called naked fat tests conducted by the once-beloved coach at North Kingstown High School. Instead, Thomas was found guilty of a lesser charge, two counts of misdemeanor battery.
Superior Court Judge Melanie Wilk Thunburg handed down the sentence Monday.
Throughout the nearly six-week trial, defense attorneys for Thomas argued the tests were wrong but not a crime. The defense said Thomas didn’t touch the boy athletes for sexual gratification or arousal, a key requirement under the charges he faced.
Prosecutors maintained Thomas created and implemented a program that allowed him to have unfettered access to young naked boys for decades.
Although Thomas performed the tests on multiple students over many years, the charges related to just two former students, including one who was under 14 at the time, in September 2000 and February 2002.
Read the article for more mindboggling revelations.
Come to think of it, this could even fit in the alternative to juries thread.