Originally posted by Crumpp
It changes region to region judge to judge because of the US legal system.
I am sure that the prosecutor will appeal and eventually justice will be done.
Our legal system is far from perfect but it's about the best system I have seen in the world IMO.
The other side to this is there maybe other facts we are not aware of but the jury certainly was when they said "this is fair".
Crumpp
Legal system, you say.
What about the 'mind crimes' prosecuted in the US (and the Great Britain?) when people got busted not for the crime itself but for the intention to commit the such.
I am talking about the active provocation practices of the undercover police agents who lure innocent people into nonexistent crime activity by posing as drug dealers, prostitutes, terrorists. When you buy some pot-grass from an undercover police officer it can't be a crime because he is the guy who is responsible for supplying you with this stuff. Even it you consider this provocation to be a crime, who should get longer sentence, the buyer or the seller?
In most of the so-called civilized countries such a situation is called 'police provocation' and the judges throw these cases into the waste-paper buckets. But in the "fortress of the democracy"
these cases are legit !??? As well as the trial of a French couple for performing oral sex behind the closed doors of their hotel room during the Olympic games in Atlanta !
So much for the "about the best" legal system in the world.
I wish I could have the statistics on the number of people put into the jails here in the USA as the result of these police provocation practices which are exactly the same as the Gestapo methods. Even without this particular statistics a reasonable man can question the qulity of the American legal system when he learns about the number of people behind the bars in the US jails (second after Russia, as I remember).
