# Shadenfreude- I has it.  Former DA gets prison time

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 5, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113 "2008-03-05T00:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113/1 "2008-03-05T00:52:33Z")

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The DA who I faced for 16 years, and who I always believed to be morally challenged, was sentenced to prison today for stealing county funds. Story here:

[http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/3911/](http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/3911/)

I would wish prison on very few people- however, he was very callous on dealing with my clients. He didn’t have a lot of sympathy for people with substance abuse problems- then he gets into court and plays the addict card. Can’t say I feel too bad. It was a blind plea, which means that there was no plea bargain and the sentence was totally up to the judge.

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113/2 "2008-03-05T02:01:35Z")

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When the character witnesses can’t think of anything better than “He had gambling problems, and drank a lot.” you got to figure the guy is a bum.

Tris

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113/3 "2008-03-05T02:25:49Z")

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Did he always look that mephistophelian?

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113/4 "2008-03-05T04:07:01Z")

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Well, **katie1341** , this is something we don’t often get to savor – a hypocrite receiving poetic justice. That’s what shadenfreude was invented for!

And who knows, maybe in prison he’ll actually learn something, and become a better person. (not likely, but one can hope.)

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**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113/5 "2008-03-05T04:14:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Larry Mudd]  
Did he always look that mephistophelian?  
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I always thought he looked like Papa Smurf.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadenfreude-i-has-it-former-da-gets-prison-time/440113/6 "2008-03-05T11:33:51Z")

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Gotta love this:

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> “He makes one bad judgement and commits a theft and the whole 24 years, no one cares about,” Perry said. “They all want to know what we’re going to do now that he’s broken the public trust.”

Perry talks about a continuous crime as if it was… a bout-of-the-moment attack of The Shoplifting or some such.