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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I was privvy to info about prosecutors vs public defenders. It may not be true in every region, but it is at least in my town.

    Prosecutors actually get less money to handle cases, but get to push off or decline to prosecute depending on severity and caseload.

    Public defenders get more funding from many different levels of government, but even with that funding they are overworked with twice the staff.

    I think prosecutors already have the case presented to them as well, and they are pressing charges. Defenders need to pick up where the police and prosecutors left off and either find a legal out or bargain with what the defendant has to get the best position.

    Also, from what I have heard about pro se defendants is that it frustrates the court because the proceedings grind to a crawl to ensure the defendant understands enough of what is going on to not have them claim they were railroaded.










  • To turn the state blue, yippee.

    To give the guy a pass by because he was supposedly out drinking with his fellow Marines and supposedly accidentally got a Nazi tattoo? Maybe. I’d hate to be in an accidentally do something offensive competition with a random drunken American enlisted. I think I read that he is Jewish, so bonus points to the story, I guess.

    His Reddit history has been made out to make him a bit of a chud.