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Cake day: August 8th, 2024

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  • “I’m not entirely satisfied with the sentence … but ultimately as a prosecutor I have to weigh things like the impact of actually having to testify on the victim of this crime,” said Ontario County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Wolford. “And she’s a child, and she was going to have to face her accuser in the courtroom. And when I was given the opportunity to consider whether or not we’d take a guilty plea – absolutely, all day, in a circumstance like this.”

    **** edit this is Canada shit, happened in Canada, apologies, I think it’s relevant to the us *****

    It’s really rough. The u.s. judicial system is not prepared to deal with this.





  • Unfortunately, that particular legal brief that I read, which was written by “real lawyers”, used “turgid” in reference to genitalia. The argument had something to do with the intent of undercover officers in strip clubs. I’ve forgotten why the cops were there to begin with, but my relative has a career in representing cops when they did illegal and horrible stuff. I am NOT defending any of that.