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HeyBub[_3_]

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

There was a study done in the NY prisons a few years ago, looking for
the percentage of people incarcerated for drug violations where there
was no violent crimes committed. They found one (no, not one
percent).

"People get convicted not for what they did, but for what can be proved, and
often what is proved is not what they did," so says Alan Dershowitz.
Dershowitz went on to say "Most criminal defendants cannot be convicted
without violating some fundamental right. This rule is known to the judge,
the prosecutor, and the defense.*"

It makes sense to put a $100/day Heroin addict in prison for possession of
narcotics (a non-violent felony) thereby preventing an armed robbery a day
(a violent felony). Or three burglaries. Or one car theft.

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* Here's how changing ONE LETTER in an offense report can send a person away
for life:

Excerpt from offense report:
"While on routine patrol, officer Smith and I turned from Main Street onto
1st Street and observed Dudley Dobad, known to us as a formerly
twice-convicted car thief, sitting on a late model Chevrolet, subsequently
determined to be stolen..."

Now change the word "on" to "in" so that the report reads: "... sitting IN a
late model Chevrolet..."