What are We Doing to Ourselves with the Criminal Justice System?
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17 responses to “What are We Doing to Ourselves with the Criminal Justice System?”
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Career criminals like so many career politicians have a thousand lives which survive the worst thrown at them. The criminal justice system has big problems including incarceration of innocent folks
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Aren’t they one in the same?
1 in 5 Americans have been arrested.
Wow! Am I out of date. These folks claim 1 in 3…
https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Americans-with-Criminal-Records-Poverty-and-Opportunity-Profile.pdf-
I’d need to see some unbiased data on that before I’d believe 1 in 3.
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Same here, but 1 in 5, 1 in 6, has staying power. Been touted since the 70s… or so my lawyer said.
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“The criminal justice system has big problems including incarceration of innocent folks”
Not everyone is infallible like you. Shouldn’t you have corrected the issues when you were part of the system?
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Good for Richmond — it deserves such outstanding citizens walking its streets!
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Small sample set, Boss.
“The elephant is very much like a snake,” declared the blind man holding the animal’s tail. “No, I think it is some sort of tree,” replied another blind man leaning on the animal’s leg.
I can only say that whatever you think of the system, you will think less of it if all of your presumed problems were “fixed”.
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How many felony convictions does this guy need to rack up before the sample size is large enough?
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For a condemnation of the system? Even Bundy didn’t elicit this much outrage.
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Small sample set, Boss.
“The elephant is very much like a snake,” declared the blind man holding the animal’s tail. “No, I think it is some sort of tree,” replied another blind man leaning on the animal’s leg.
I can only say that whatever you think of the system, you will think less of it if all of your presumed problems were “fixed”.
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Two observations. One, you are correct; we do not know the details of the prior offenses for which he was convicted. Therefore, we should not be drawing conclusions. Two, the sentence has not been announced. Even with a possible plea deal, he faces a possible long sentence. It will likely be several weeks until the sentence is known. Again, one should not draw conclusions based on unknown factors.
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The problem being that his first firearms conviction should have netted him a minimum of 5 years behind bars, 10 if he used it the commission of a crime.
If you want to impose new firearms laws enforce the current ones.
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Under Virginia law, use of a firearm in the commission of specified violent felonies (not any firearm conviction) is punishable by a minimum mandatory sentence of three years. A second or subsequent offense is subject to a five-year minimum mandatory sentence. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter4/section18.2-53.1/
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It’s he is only 25 now in 2022 and was on the street in 2020 he was not yet of age to posses a handgun in 2017.
Again, you can’t call for new laws when you are unwilling to enforce existing laws. As it stands federal firearm laws say 5 for possession 10 for possession in commission.
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I didn’t say anything about new laws.
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You have in the past and have not relented in that stance.
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“When a majority of court districts have Republican-appointed judges, law school students pay a high price for not being exposed to conservative thought.” — JAB
Hmmm, the country as a whole, too? co-inkydink?
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