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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1457230)5/17/2024 1:01:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1570271
 
BC, I'm not surprised that you would run away from that point you made.

All you do is come up with one non sequitur after another after another.

Case in point:
Prosecutors regularly incentivize plea bargains and threaten the prospect of a “trial penalty” of up to ten times as severe as their plea offer.
Punishments are limited by law and by the 8th amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Plea bargains benefit defendants FAR more than prosecutors, as often they can get dozens of charges dismissed and agree to punishments that are FAR lighter than what their crimes deserve.

Your portrayal of plea bargains as some sort of "blackmail" using the threat of punishment "up to ten times as severe" is a complete twisting of the truth.

A much more accurate portrayal is that the plea bargain offers the prospect of only having to accept a punishment that is "as little as 10% of the maximum sentence allowed by law."
I freely admitI don't know one way or the other but to claim the US is "better" based on no evidence is BS....
Why don't you move out of Oahu and into RuZZia, then? I hear they prosecute simple possession of cannabis with 10 years of hard time in a gulag.

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