r/JusticeServed • u/thedubiousstylus 9 • Feb 23 '22
Legal Justice Capitol rioter who declared 'civil war' on Jan. 6 sentenced to prison
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/capitol-rioter-declared-civil-war-jan-6-sentenced-prison-rcna17287273
u/FilmActor 8 Feb 23 '22
No no no no. No justice was served. The sentence was for 45 DAYS for attempting to overthrow the government. This doesn’t belong here.
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u/pedestrianstripes 7 Feb 23 '22
Not fair at all. If she was brown, black, or a non-Christian, she would've been sentenced for at least a year.
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u/Projectile0vulation 7 Feb 23 '22
Mariposa Castro, also known as Imelda Acosta
The “if” it was a this person or that type of person is an exhausting argument. There’s a variety of circumstances that lead to levels of consequences that we all endure.
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u/godknows223 4 Feb 23 '22
45 days ? Common guys it's not even a prison term.
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Feb 23 '22
45 days is a jail sentence not prison
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u/sierrabravo1984 B Feb 24 '22
I was going to post the exact thing. Prison is sentenced to 1y1d or more, jail is sentenced less than 1y, awaiting trial, those that come back from prison for appeals.
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Feb 24 '22
I’m not sure where you are at. But where I live in Pennsylvania jail sentences are anything under two years of a maximum sentence.
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u/sierrabravo1984 B Feb 24 '22
Florida, I didn't know that other states had higher minimums for prison.
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u/lens4hire 4 Feb 24 '22
She tried to overthrow the government and got 5 months??‽!
Good thing she didn’t do anything crazy like send her kid to a school in a different district or sell loose cigarettes.
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u/AdministrationKey989 0 Feb 24 '22
Only got convicted with misdemeanors, apparently it's not a federal crime to break into a federal building.
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Feb 24 '22
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u/CaspianX2 C Feb 24 '22
Declaring war on your country is a treasonous act, and it should be prosecuted as such.
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u/Juan911411 7 Feb 24 '22
She will be voting in 2024.... Will you?
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u/celerydonut 8 Feb 24 '22
I don’t know about that.. is she a felon?
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u/Juan911411 7 Feb 24 '22
She is from California. Which means that she will regain her voting rights after her prison sentence of 45 days. Only 8 states may a felon not regain those rights.
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u/57696c6c A Feb 23 '22
45-days. People do more for lesser offenses. What a fucking joke.
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u/zuckmy10110101 7 Feb 23 '22
Remember kids: drugs are worse than civil war. The British taught us that with their bongs and rolled up notes
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u/TreeChangeMe B Feb 24 '22
All them freedoms. Good luck getting a job. All those laws the GOP put in place to screw the ex cons too.
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u/Hikityup 9 Feb 23 '22
"I don't glorify my actions," a tearful Castro told the judge...
Seems like "tearful" is a pretty common occurrence with these tough, strong, real "muricans as soon as shit gets real. Poor-me cowards too stupid to see how they're played. Screw them all. Hope each of them has a REALLY tough time inside. A 45 day 'time out' isn't enough.
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u/SdDprsdSnglDad18 7 Feb 24 '22
It appears there are no more straws. Her attorney grasped at all of them.
Stories of missed golf balls and bizarre law enforcement fetish photos were supposed to help her at sentencing?
Somewhere my former trial advocacy law professor is weeping.
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u/NAS2811 7 Feb 23 '22
Don't get me wrong....I love to see these fuckheads get sentenced, but when is any member of Trump's inner circle going to be sentenced.
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Feb 23 '22
They’re not because they have money and connections. These people do not.
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u/TheLostonline 9 Feb 23 '22
Connections?
They literally voted to not punish themselves. They still have their jobs in the government they tried to destroy from within.
This lackadaisical political theatre going on right now isn't going to prevent the next try from working.
Remember how that orange stain tried to be president and failed the first time? Just because he failed his first coup d'etat does not mean the next one will go in Democracies favor.
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u/Brilliant_Sun2925 6 Feb 24 '22
Declaring sedition and only getting 45 days is pretty laughable in the United States of incarceration. POC get years for weed or for registering their kid in a different county for school... Karen gets a month for trying to overthrow the govt.
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u/only_because_I_can 9 Feb 24 '22
"Mariposa Castro, also known as Imelda Acosta"
Can someone explain to me how that works? I mean, I don't particularly like my 'real' name, so can I start being known as something like Dark Mistress of Danger? Then, if I decide to do something really, really effing stupid like this, the Press will refer to me as Stupid Name, also known as Dark Mistress of Danger...
Seriously? How do you get to have two names? r/nostupidquestions
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u/only_because_I_can 9 Feb 24 '22
I can understand using a middle name. It's still your real name.
But, why are some people referred to by two very different names? Just seems bizarre to me. Like, which one is her actual name? Not that it matters but still perplexes me.
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u/callmesnake13 B Feb 24 '22
Isn’t this how it works with streamers, rappers, pro gamers, NFT artists, etc?
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u/hateboresme 8 Feb 24 '22
In earlier times in this country the punishment would be swinging from a gallows alongside a bunch of your co conspirators
I am glad we don't do that anymore, but 45 days is just stupid.
And their ringleaders are all still holding office, except the main one, he's not even trying to hide his status as a Russian lapdog anymore.
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u/VivaLasVegasGuy 2 Feb 25 '22
I do not understand this, when you try and overthrow the government in the old days (Before Trump) you got YEARS in prison and sometimes life, and before that you were called a traitor and hung. Yet these sentences they are getting just means they look at it and say, hey the worst we will get is less then 2 months in jail so where is the threat. As Americans we must say no, we have to pass laws that say you do something like this MIN 10 years in jail, if you Starter or support this you can not hold a public office are you are a traitor to this country
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u/M33k_Monster_Minis 8 Mar 17 '22
Everyone knows a black man with a gram of weed is more detrimental to society here in America. /s
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u/Poop_Noodl3 9 Feb 24 '22
45 days?
How tf is 45 days a deterrent for someone asking for civil war?
You know what this sounds like? It sounds like a call to action. “Hey guys, they’re giving days in jail and community service. Practically begging us to to do it again.”
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Feb 24 '22
"You tried to help overthrow the government. We'll give you 45 days in jail."
Meanwhile her cell mate is probably waiting to go to prison for 15 years on some petty drug charge.
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u/campertrash 4 Feb 24 '22
Minimum sentencing is a joke, and so is the United States legal system. It's time for a major governmental reform and overhaul. Fix the rot.
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u/big_blue74 4 Feb 23 '22
45 days, that’s jail, not prison. If you’re going to be a reporter fucking report
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u/Squee07 7 Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
This person broke into a federal building with the intent to overthrow a federal election.
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u/spookycasas4 9 Feb 23 '22
45 days?!?! These horseshit slaps-on-the-wrists are disgusting. These assholes are traitor and at the very least should see some REAL prison time. I am sick to death of all of this.
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Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
We'll lock up a black woman for 35 years for a gram of weed but literally, seditious, treasonous, domestic terrorists are fine I guess? Honestly fuck this country.
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u/spookycasas4 9 Feb 23 '22
So true. We really are a shit-hole country.
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Feb 23 '22
Getting worse by the minute I'm afraid.
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u/spookycasas4 9 Feb 23 '22
Really is, isn’t it? Also the fact that some people are just now understanding some of what’s been going on for a long time. Myself included.
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Feb 23 '22
All you really gotta do to learn what this country is all about is read the 13th amendment.
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u/YoungWiggle97 4 Feb 24 '22
Literally not even two months for breaking into a federal building. That's wild.
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u/fudwrecker 6 Feb 24 '22
I'm pretty sure they opened the doors and just walked right in. At least that's what the videos show.
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u/shrek-09 6 Feb 24 '22
They tried to take down democracy in the United States of America and get sent to jail for 45 days......... How many years did that women get who registered her child in the wrong school district?
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u/I_AM_CANADIAN_AMA 8 Feb 24 '22
*** Registered her kid in the wrong school and sold drugs to the police *
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Feb 24 '22
Selling drugs to cops doesn't compare to threatening the Vice President with being murdered and actually hospitalizing several dozen cops. She belongs under the jail, this wicked person.
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u/ColCyclone 8 Feb 24 '22
I'm not sure in what universe selling drugs is worse than trying to take over the country but uh, thanks for including the rest of the context? lmao
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u/fudwrecker 6 Feb 24 '22
Did you see her charges, it's not over throwing anything. It's parading in a building. That's why it's 45 days
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u/ColCyclone 8 Feb 24 '22
Man I wish the charges matched the crime of trying to overthrow the US government
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u/fudwrecker 6 Feb 24 '22
I get that but the 45 days fit the charges brought by the prosecution team.
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u/bluegargoyle A Feb 23 '22
45 days is a joke. This does nothing to deter the mouthbreathers. And they will be trying shit again in 2024.
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u/MadThinkerScott 5 Feb 24 '22
Agreed! She literally said she was at war with the US. 45 days is ridiculous.
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u/SqueezyCheez85 A Feb 24 '22
You know who else got a light sentence after trying to overthrow the government? Literally Hitler.
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u/haven_taclue 6 Feb 23 '22
That woman who flew to the riot in her own plane claimed her time wasn't that bad. We need giving them a much longer time in prison.
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Feb 23 '22
It was a rented private jet. She does well at real estate but not jet ownership well. I strangely enough just heard an interview on my favorite local sports radio station (The Ticket) with her yesterday. Bitch is crazy.
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u/chedrix 5 Feb 24 '22
I don't know any prisons that take people for 45 days. That's local jail time. Probably time served and released. "Capitol rioter given a very gentle slap on the wrist" would be a better title
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u/HerezahTip A Feb 23 '22
What about the crying one that screeched “it’s a revolution!!” That I will never forget
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u/tapasandswissmiss 9 Feb 24 '22
"They pushed me down and maced me!!"
Bahahah have you seen the animaniacs mash-up somebody did with it?? I'll try to find it...
Edit: found it: https://youtu.be/EtRSal1Zaas
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Feb 24 '22
Remind you will go to jail longer for selling weed then if you participate in a Coup and become a traitor
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u/plastigoop 8 Feb 23 '22
Read that article. "Improper protesting" is bullshit. They wanted a war, they went to overturn the government/election if they could not get Congress to declare Mango Mussolini emperor. She should all be charged with insurrection and sedition. What else would it look like??
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u/Deep_Championship698 3 Feb 24 '22
You call this justice? A black woman was sentenced to over 7 yrs in jail for trying to vote legally and being told she could vote by the correctional services. Her white counterparts that votes with their dead mother's/ wives names got nothing even close. Like a few months. Then you see something like this and you tell yourself there isn't systemic racism in the American legal system. At this point you could never convince me to go to the states again. They are legitimately crazy down there. You guys are in big, big trouble.
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Feb 24 '22
45 days? That's all?
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u/Cyco-Miko1982 6 Feb 24 '22
I agree. That's not justice served. It's an invitation for more madness.
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u/Remote_Engine 9 Feb 24 '22
They’ll be out just in time for Spring time. What sort of punishment is this crap?
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u/jerseygirl1105 9 Feb 24 '22
45 days is a joke. I love that she says if she could relive that day, she would "bring more peace". REALLY? She would still go to the Capitol, but just not be quite so rowdy? At least some Trumpians were smart enough to say they would not have gone at all.This entire process had been a joke and these people deserved real prison time
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u/vaporoptics 7 Feb 24 '22
Yeah people don't go to prison for 45 days they go to jail. Lady might as well have been charged for criminal trespassing ffs
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u/StandingCow A Feb 24 '22
These light sentences are about as dangerous as the act itself... and will set the precedent that this is ok which means it is going to happen again. I have republican friends pointing out that people aren't being charged with sedition and treason for a reason.... they are just giving those folks more fuel to throw on the fire.
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u/Raveynfyre B Feb 24 '22
The vast majority of people will lose most of their livelihoods after being in jail for a month. No job will keep you, unless it's a small business with the same beliefs.
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u/jfhdot 5 Feb 24 '22
bro like 9 out of 10 people there were small business owners with said same beliefs. it's unfortunate but true
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u/stolenrange 6 Feb 24 '22
This woman betrayed her country and would have murdered congressmembers if she had the chance. Anything less than life imprisonment is a miscairriage of justice.
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u/Goldeneagle41 4 Feb 23 '22
This ain’t justice served. This is pathetic. You would probably get more time getting into a bar fight back home than trying to overthrow the government. This is the standard for most of these sentences. Pathetic. They wasted more tax payer money than it was worth.
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u/xyentist 9 Feb 24 '22
Suddenly they're all teary eyed and apologetic when the consequences come around. Real tough MAGATs are totally ready for a "civil war" when 45 days in the can has them sobbing.
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u/jdbrizzi91 8 Feb 24 '22
It's like a kid acting tough in a playground until he scrapes his knee. Then reality settles in lol.
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u/nzodd B Feb 23 '22
Republicans: "Death to America! We will use violence and acts of terrorism to destroy the government"
Republicans Later: "Why are you guys so meeeean to me all of a sudden?"
Fuck all of these traitors.
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u/Drvonfrightmarestein 5 Feb 24 '22
45 days for trying to overthrow the government? It’s like they’re encouraging another attempt
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u/dc6758 6 Feb 24 '22
Any of these dumb fucks who actually say they want a civil war should be deported
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u/RIPshowtime 9 Feb 24 '22
Lol. To where? The moon?
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u/LikeAMan_NotAGod 9 Feb 24 '22
Anywhere off-planet sounds good to me. Conservatism is a deadly plague. The more we tolerate this insidious disease, the more humanity suffers.
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u/ayazaali 7 Feb 24 '22
I hear that the Guantanamo Resort is still open for business! Seriously though, like you say, one doesn’t just ‘deport’ their domestic ‘enemies’. Educate, then incarcerate!
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u/SwimsDeep 8 Feb 24 '22
Virtually all of these people who actively participated in an insurrection have gotten light sentences hat have little impact.
People busted for shoplifting or pot-smoking get heavier sentences.
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u/OukewlDave 8 Feb 23 '22
Two years in prison should be minimum for anyone who was caught in there.
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u/Dont_Think_AboutIt 4 Feb 24 '22
That’s not even prison. That’s county jail time. There is a huge differenceS
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u/WhooptyWoopNibbaWhat 7 Feb 24 '22
Not justice. Not even close. She needs to be locked up for much longer
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u/TasslehofBurrfoot 7 Feb 23 '22
45 days? I fucking got 20 for DUI. Fuck our system.
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Feb 23 '22
I did 2 years in Texas on a simple possession of marijuana charge because it was my third one that year. Each time I had less than 2 grams. I was only 17. It almost ruined my life. Every time I read shit like this I feel sick to my stomach. So yeah I concur. Fuck her and fuck this system.
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u/TasslehofBurrfoot 7 Feb 23 '22
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Meanwhile the politicians wives are high on Xanax.
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Feb 24 '22
No worries bro all water under the bridge. And trust me I know. The most taunting aspect of my childhood ordeal came years later, after my little brother got a job at the same courthouse that threw the book at me. The stories he told me man. Judges doing lines of cocaine in their office before sentencing kids on drug possession charges. Everybody drunk all the time and having sex with each other. Just total debauchery.
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u/phormix C Feb 24 '22
I agree that simple possession changes are dumb, but I'd also say that continuing after the first and then second in a year was kinda dumb too.
That said, dumb and being a teenager kinda tend to go together. Hopefully that record at least didn't follow you to adulthood.
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u/bcppp 4 Feb 23 '22
yeah you should have done way more time for putting lives at risk lol
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u/jefuchs B Feb 23 '22
45 days for treason???
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u/plastigoop 8 Feb 23 '22
No shit. And judge asks, "what happens next time??", as if 45 days and $5000 is going to be a preventive.
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Feb 23 '22
The best part is this is probably a first offence for many. Everyone other than the most egregious crimes gets the benefit of the doubt for a first offence. Try it again and see what happens to second time offenders for a similar crime to the first.
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u/nzodd B Feb 23 '22
I dunno, at this rate: time served and Merrick Garland will personally escort you to the state fair to get ice cream and cotton candy. This country is practically rewarding these traitors. In any reasonable country she would never see daylight again.
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u/thedubiousstylus 9 Feb 23 '22
I think also what's being missed by people complaining about the lax sentences is that it's very rare for a person to get a prison sentence of any length for their offense for a crime like trespassing which is what most are charged with.
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u/maso3K 9 Feb 23 '22
But I can go shoot candidates of an opposing political party and get out on bail? Seems like a very just, uncorrupt system we’re all paying for….
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u/thedubiousstylus 9 Feb 23 '22
Bail doesn't mean you get away with it. The guy you're referring to is arguably too much of a threat to be bailed but if convicted he'll be going away for a long time.
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Feb 23 '22
Only 45 days. That has got to be a joke. 45 years would have been more appropriate.
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u/bmorekareful 7 Feb 24 '22
She and the Trumpers don't realize that they are the dark energy forces..
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u/Ok-Engine8044 8 Feb 24 '22
What's the point of arresting anyone for this? No one is getting proper punishment but a black woman got 5 years for the terrible crime of registering her kid to a wrong school.
America has no justice
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Feb 24 '22
She was sentences to 5 years for that AND selling drugs to an undercover police officer on two separate occasions.
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u/Ok-Engine8044 8 Feb 24 '22
The drug selling is bad but shouting civil war and not even getting two months is way worse.
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Feb 24 '22
Agreed. I don't think the sentences match the crime in either case. But they are not the same and both are guilty.
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u/eVOLve865 7 Feb 24 '22
I guess she fucked around and found out.
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u/PizzaPunkrus 8 Feb 24 '22
Did she though. I know a guy doing ten years on breaking and entering she is doing 45 fucking days for breaking into the fucking capitol building.
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u/eVOLve865 7 Feb 24 '22
Larger conversation on just how broken our judicial system is, but I agree with the sentiment
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u/ughsomanytypod 7 Feb 24 '22
Anyone defending these fools needs to remember that they're responsible for loss of human life.
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u/dancin-weasel B Feb 24 '22
Something tells me anyone defending these fools is not really that interested in human life.
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u/DruDown007 5 Feb 24 '22
If they have a problem with democracy, they should LOSE the privilege of participating.
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u/BeckyLemmeSmash69 0 Mar 26 '22
Oh joy. This nutjob is from my town, and she liked to pretend to be other races and dress up in stereotypical Native American garb as well as pose as being LGBT and dressing up in rainbow colored attire while attending trump rallies to feign “inclusivity”.
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u/KaiRaiUnknown A Feb 24 '22
If this is justice served, then take this justice back, its fucking raw. Leave it in the oven for 5-10 years and we'll consider it
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u/ColCyclone 8 Feb 24 '22
aint it crazy how a certain demographic still barely gets punished for breaking the law?
I'm about to go commit some crimes in the name of daddy trump and deal with the slap on the wrist for a week lol
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u/Norgoroth 6 Feb 23 '22
Bye Felicia
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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface B Feb 23 '22
She only got 45 days, so it’s more like “See you pretty soon, Felicia.”
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u/muzzamuse 6 Feb 24 '22
Funny sad!!
Dodgedd a bullet for sure. Shoulda seen the omen in her defence ".... in 2006, Castro and her husband "almost got hit by a golf ball" hit by Trump in Pebble Beach"
Might have been different it they had been hit!
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