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Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Devor posted:

Mandatory minimum for drug offense against a minority: my hands are tied

Mandatory minimum for arson during which life was endangered: this shocks the conscience, I won't do it! Appeals court: sorry, you have to. We have precedent from all those cases where we put away minority defendants for WAY too long

I think on the balance our society would be well served if this was a precedent-setting SCOTUS ruling that would get applied to the hundreds of thousands otherwise serving mandatory minimums, but this is just more Trump garbage to embolden the nutjobs

mandatory minimums aren't necessarily a bad thing. they're good in cases where local authorities have a history of undersentencing people for certain crimes

for example, if local prosecutors and judges repeatedly let a prominent local rancher off with wrist-slaps despite a decades-long crime spree

the guy loving sandpapered his grandkid's skin off and got off with "pretrial diversion". he's been sending death threats to government agents since the 80s. He's been involved in obstructing federal agents, kicking people off of public land, illegal hunting, forget, and more, and I'm pretty sure the arson stuff is the first time they'd ever spent more than a few days in jail

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Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Just remember to wear a cowboy hat when you commit your crimes.

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
being white is also super helpful

Fuckt Tupp
Apr 19, 2007

Science
e: wrong thread


arsonists are bad and should be punished, imo

nm
Jan 28, 2008

"I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Kazak_Hstan posted:


There is absolutely nothing redeemable about the Hammonds.
They did ask the bundys to go away, so there's that

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo
lol at the law n order cucks in the original bundy/malheur thread certain the feds were playing 11th dimensional chess and not smug, incompetent morons who've lost whatever edge they ever had because they spent the last decade+ gangstalking and entrapping mentally ill muslim teens

you utter rubes

you loving morons

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



Main Paineframe posted:

mandatory minimums aren't necessarily a bad thing. they're good in cases where local authorities have a history of undersentencing people for certain crimes

for example, if local prosecutors and judges repeatedly let a prominent local rancher off with wrist-slaps despite a decades-long crime spree

the guy loving sandpapered his grandkid's skin off and got off with "pretrial diversion". he's been sending death threats to government agents since the 80s. He's been involved in obstructing federal agents, kicking people off of public land, illegal hunting, forget, and more, and I'm pretty sure the arson stuff is the first time they'd ever spent more than a few days in jail

best part is that even ignoring all this, these fuckheads intentionally set fires during fire season in southern oregon.

i live in southern oregon. there's a fire not even 10 miles from me right now that has killed two people and forced a shitload of evacuations. intentionally lighting a forest on fire during fire season here is one of the shittiest fuckin things a human being can even do.

Shalebridge Cradle
Apr 23, 2008


1994 Toyota Celica posted:

lol at the law n order cucks in the original bundy/malheur thread certain the feds were playing 11th dimensional chess and not smug, incompetent morons who've lost whatever edge they ever had because they spent the last decade+ gangstalking and entrapping mentally ill muslim teens

you utter rubes

you loving morons

yeah pretty much

but that was in the time before trump so it was much easier to believe things weren't so incredibly stupid at every single level

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
All we can hope is that ordinary people recognize the injustice here, because the chud base is lapping this poo poo up.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

1994 Toyota Celica posted:

lol at the law n order cucks in the original bundy/malheur thread certain the feds were playing 11th dimensional chess and not smug, incompetent morons who've lost whatever edge they ever had because they spent the last decade+ gangstalking and entrapping mentally ill muslim teens

you utter rubes

you loving morons

it really is impressive how badly the FBI managed to gently caress it up

i still can't believe they let these guys run around racking up crimes for months and still managed to completely botch the prosecution

they really were too used to judges letting them get away with whatever they wanted

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Main Paineframe posted:

it really is impressive how badly the FBI managed to gently caress it up

i still can't believe they let these guys run around racking up crimes for months and still managed to completely botch the prosecution

they really were too used to judges letting them get away with whatever they wanted

Well, in one case the FBI hosed up (the brady violations). In some of the cases, jury nullification is the culprit because they're white sovcits.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
Is it seriously too much to expect the FBI to if not competently prosecute an extremely easy case, then to rig it so they win anyway, or at least just kill everyone before trial? What do they even do all day?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i'm hoping they just go in guns blazing next time something like this happens. no need for those idiots in arizona because lol its arizona in summer

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Jose posted:

i'm hoping they just go in guns blazing next time something like this happens. no need for those idiots in arizona because lol its arizona in summer

sorry to burst your bubble, but the president of the United States is donald trump

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Jose posted:

i'm hoping they just go in guns blazing next time something like this happens. no need for those idiots in arizona because lol its arizona in summer
"SOMEBODY DESTROYED OUR SUPPLIES OF WATER!! WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING?!"

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Main Paineframe posted:

they really were too used to judges letting them get away with whatever they wanted

This applies to federal prosecutors too.

Can't recall where it was from, but I either heard a legal expert being interviewed or read an article with the same saying that since assistant US attorneys have come to rely on strong-arming defendants into accepting plea bargains so frequently that they are horribly out of practice when they actually have to take a case to trial.

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!
Hey, remember these guys?
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1021250826734456832

They're mildly upset.
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1021472491976310785

So are their fans.
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1021474854589976576

"Fans."
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1021485089409183747

"Yes we are, how you say, "fans"'
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1021487080168476672

e: lol it keeps getting better
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1021489288389840896

McGlockenshire has issued a correction as of 21:18 on Jul 23, 2018

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

"He is the Rosa Parks of child trafficking"

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

1994 Toyota Celica posted:

lol at the law n order cucks in the original bundy/malheur thread certain the feds were playing 11th dimensional chess and not smug, incompetent morons who've lost whatever edge they ever had because they spent the last decade+ gangstalking and entrapping mentally ill muslim teens

you utter rubes

you loving morons

That self soothing line is used by anxious libs in any circumstance where failure is too horrifying

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!
Ammon Bundy, a constitutional rights defender to his allies and a domestic terrorist to his critics, spoke in Smithfield, Utah, on Wednesday and claimed that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is a devout member, has been infiltrated by socialists, globalists and environmentalists.

quote:

He claimed at Smithfield, which is in northern Utah near the Idaho border, that the federal government’s prosecution of him and his supporters following confrontations in Nevada and Oregon is really a “battle of high priests” of the LDS church. He said his father, himself and his attorney are all high priests in the church. But so are the lead U.S. attorney prosecuting his family, the chief judge in Oregon and former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid.

quote:

Bundy went on to explain his view that events detailed in the Book of Mormon and the Bible have been repeating themselves over the past several years in his confrontations with the federal government.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer
owning the libs by trashing the mormon church

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


thank Christ our nutjobs are so dumb

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Would really like to see these fuckwits get Ruby Ridged.

Vahakyla
May 3, 2013
It’s hilarious that dude’s bond was 500$.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Getting excommunicated to own the libs

TheMadMilkman
Dec 10, 2007

Casimir Radon posted:

Getting excommunicated to own the libs

As a socialist, globalist, and environmentalist Mormon, I can only dream.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
remember when that one fed insisted that the only reason that Bundy was in trouble was that the BLM were discriminating against Mormons

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Main Paineframe posted:

remember when that one fed insisted that the only reason that Bundy was in trouble was that the BLM were discriminating against Mormons
:cry: It's a tenant of Mormonism to graze our cows for free on government land, drive our 4-wheelers on archeaological sites, and point guns at federal employees. Just leave us alone :cry:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Casimir Radon posted:

:cry: It's a tenant of Mormonism to graze our cows for free on government land, drive our 4-wheelers on archeaological sites, and point guns at federal employees. Just leave us alone :cry:

You forgot “abuse children”.

Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/conradjwilson/status/1022197854499004416

astarita should almost certainly be convicted, but he also owns

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Rip all their cowboy hats off and stomp on them.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
Ryan Payne gets at least something:

https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1031954956562165760

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
lmao, just over three years for a prolonged armed standoff with federal authorities

meanwhile, a left-wing radical got six years for trying to blow up a Confederate statue

https://mobile.twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1031913776344457217

hangedman1984
Jul 25, 2012


Seems to have been taken down

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
Huh, weird. Ryan Payne got 36 months. That's it.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


TotalLossBrain posted:

Huh, weird. Ryan Payne got 36 months. That's it.
At this point it's better than nothing.

Vahakyla
May 3, 2013
Don't let american prison sentences distort reality. It's not fair in the large picture of things compared to some other offenders, but literally nobody who goes to federal prison for 36 months will think that he got off easy, and that he will do it again because he'll only get another 36 months. Certainty of punishment plays a large role in effective criminal justice, but severity of punishment doesn't really. There are plenty of countries where 36 months is the extreme high end of sentencing scale for any crime.

He definitely doesn't think he got off easy, or that he won.

Vahakyla has issued a correction as of 05:50 on Aug 23, 2018

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Uh, he's a militia dipshit. He thinks he's a martyr right now.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Vahakyla posted:

Don't let american prison sentences distort reality. It's not fair in the large picture of things compared to some other offenders, but literally nobody who goes to federal prison for 36 months will think that he got off easy, and that he will do it again because he'll only get another 36 months. Certainty of punishment plays a large role in effective criminal justice, but severity of punishment doesn't really. There are plenty of countries where 36 months is the extreme high end of sentencing scale for any crime.

He definitely doesn't think he got off easy, or that he won.

he'll be a free man in March or April of next year

the time he's spent in custody awaiting his two trials is being counted toward his sentence

we also know that he thinks he got off easy and will do it again. after the Nevada trial, they let him out for a bit to go visit his family over the holidays, under the condition that he only goes to the area where his family lives and doesn't have any contact with the other Bundy occupiers. instead, he went to the Bundy ranch to party with Ammon and Ritzheimer (both of whom were released under similar conditions), and they all posted pictures on facebook. the judge specifically cited that blatant violation of his release order during sentencing as a sign that he hasn't actually learned his lesson yet

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Kazak_Hstan
Apr 28, 2014

Grimey Drawer

Vahakyla posted:

Don't let american prison sentences distort reality. It's not fair in the large picture of things compared to some other offenders, but literally nobody who goes to federal prison for 36 months will think that he got off easy, and that he will do it again because he'll only get another 36 months. Certainty of punishment plays a large role in effective criminal justice, but severity of punishment doesn't really. There are plenty of countries where 36 months is the extreme high end of sentencing scale for any crime.


True.

Casimir Radon posted:

Uh, he's a militia dipshit. He thinks he's a martyr right now.

Also true!

There is an argument to be made for incapacitation here, not just deterrence.

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