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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (16965)4/13/2000 6:39:00 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
<<Eeyup....But my point about "Bush" wasn't about him per se, it was about the political judgements on how these decisions are made, and I think that really sucks.>>

Well that's ok, I really hoped she would be spared but that wasn't Dubya's call.

I think the win/loss ratio should be taken out of trials, all trials. I also think the public defender's also stink. No money goes to them so the defendants get as little legal protection as the law can allow.

On the other hand we had a case in Illinois where a woman got dragged to death over several miles. He got 15 years. He was black with many convictions of violent crimes and she was a white slut. Played the race card.