Plea Deals
PLEA DEALS
When the leader manipulates the follower.
I'm a crime show buff, and so often - one perp will turn on the other perp
to get a better deal in the process.
This frustrates me as a constitutionalist, because I believe that most team-crime
has a leader and a follower. Look at all the old movies, Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello,
and even the Three Stooges, there were both leaders and followers. This is the way life works.
It vexes me then, when I see the leader of the crime - tells the lesser criminal to keep quiet,
then the leader offers to squeal for a deal and actually gets less prison time that the follower.
This should not be.
It's absolutely wrong for the leader to groom an assistant, then the assistant gets more time than the leader. And I have no doubt that there are times when the leader convinces the follower to be the trigger man, to keep himself clear of the actual act of murder. I've seen this where wives talk a teenage boyfriend into killer her husband.
Perhaps such leaders should draw 'human trafficking ' charges if it can be shown that a
lower-IQ defendant was seduced into a crime and then positioned the follower to take the fall
for the brunt of the crime.
PLEA DEALS
Stockpiled Charges
As an ordinary citizen, a Constitutionalist, I get frustrated when someone is arrested, charged with a half-dozen crimes, then all but one charge is dropped before the trial,
then just half of the possible sentence is given for the crime,
then that sentence is cut in half with parole.
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Conversely, as a Christian and social-activist, I get frustrated when I hear of false confessions and endless charges piled on the accused, when I believe those charges are meant to bully a confession from the suspect on the main charge. I hate bullying of any kind.
Bullied people withdraw from normal life.
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There is a malignant belief among all levels of society, which I once believed:
"Innocent people never confess to a crime they didn't commit."
I now heartily disagree with this notion.
Especially when it comes to minors and mentally sub-performing adults.
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Also, detectives believe they always have to solve crimes.
This isn't true.
They always have to investigate crimes. There is a difference.
Some crimes aren't solvable, except on the Judgement Day, when we all stand before Jesus.
This is why we all expect justice from God, because He has witnessed everything.
He speaks to the 'dead' victims, and He is prepared to punish all the unconfessed guilty.
Victims and families need to understand that due process is also the right of every suspect.
In fact, due process was created to preserve the civil rights of people who might become suspects because they shared an orbit of place and time with the victim of a crime.
Studying an 'orbit of crime' is an interesting project - to prove or not- that a suspect was
in the same place ..... with the victim ..... at the time the crime was committed.
This is done by tracing each person's locations according to the timeline.
then just half of the possible sentence is given for the crime,
then that sentence is cut in half with parole.
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Conversely, as a Christian and social-activist, I get frustrated when I hear of false confessions and endless charges piled on the accused, when I believe those charges are meant to bully a confession from the suspect on the main charge. I hate bullying of any kind.
Bullied people withdraw from normal life.
*****************************************************************
There is a malignant belief among all levels of society, which I once believed:
"Innocent people never confess to a crime they didn't commit."
I now heartily disagree with this notion.
Especially when it comes to minors and mentally sub-performing adults.
****************************************************************
Also, detectives believe they always have to solve crimes.
This isn't true.
They always have to investigate crimes. There is a difference.
Some crimes aren't solvable, except on the Judgement Day, when we all stand before Jesus.
This is why we all expect justice from God, because He has witnessed everything.
He speaks to the 'dead' victims, and He is prepared to punish all the unconfessed guilty.
Victims and families need to understand that due process is also the right of every suspect.
In fact, due process was created to preserve the civil rights of people who might become suspects because they shared an orbit of place and time with the victim of a crime.
Studying an 'orbit of crime' is an interesting project - to prove or not- that a suspect was
in the same place ..... with the victim ..... at the time the crime was committed.
This is done by tracing each person's locations according to the timeline.