Jacoby
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 Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:56 pm Post subject: What is preferable |
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| To wrongly convict someone of a crime and put them behind bars due to strict laws or for a guilty person to go free due to lax laws? |
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OliveOilMom
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Depends on what the crime is and if they may be a sufficient danger to society.
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AceOfSpades
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd take a guilty person going free over an innocent getting convicted any day. Overly strict laws set a dangerous precedent for the Government. |
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Joker
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IDK dont really care  |
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Ria1989
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I don't know. There's no justice in an innocent person spending part of their life in jail, whereas letting a guilty person go free might be okay. The guilty person might later get murdered by someone or the person might get struck by lightening, for example.
I feel like there's nothing good about an innocent person going to jail, unless of course he escapes unforeseen death, which no one can predict. |
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ruveyn
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Ria1989 wrote: | I don't know. There's no justice in an innocent person spending part of their life in jail, whereas letting a guilty person go free might be okay. The guilty person might later get murdered by someone or the person might get struck by lightening, for example.
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Or the guilty party who was neither convicted nor punished might die quietly in his own bed of natural causes.
Which is why people have invented Heaven and Hell. Heaven for the righteous who suffer unjustly and Hell for the unrighteous who otherwise prosper and die in peace.
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naturalplastic
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Better to have an OJ or a Tot Mom go free than have you or me sent to the chair (or even spend years in prison) for a capital crime we didnt commit.
Though Im not sure what laxness vs stictness of the laws would make a difference.
Its how much our rights are protected once we are accused- whether the law is strict or not. |
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Oldout
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| You've raised a very good question. But let me expand it to say -- which is worse an unreported crime or a reported crime which is not investigated? |
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ruveyn
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Oldout wrote: | | You've raised a very good question. But let me expand it to say -- which is worse an unreported crime or a reported crime which is not investigated? |
A reported crime left unprocessed is a corruption of the police process.
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Oldout
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A reported crime left unprocessed is a corruption of the police process.
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Thank you, then to your surprise I will inform you that The Federal Reserve, The OCC and The Justice Departnment are corrupt. None of them will enforce the law that says a bank must "honor" a check written on their bank's paper. In addition, the Obama will not even answer my correspondence on this matter. And I grew up being blasted as to how corrupt the Russian government was. |
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