| ▲ | npongratz 2 hours ago | |
> And that error is that they look for technical compliance when so much of the law is subjective and holistic. I know it sounds like an oversimplification, but "got off on a technicality" is a common thing among the well-connected and well-heeled. Sure, us nerds probably focus too much on the "technicality" part, since we are by definition technical, but the rest is wishy-washy, unfair BS as far as many of our brains work much of the time. | ||
| ▲ | jmyeet an hour ago | parent [-] | |
"Get off on a technicality" is largely police propaganda. The "technicality" tends to be the police violated their rights in some way or did something illegal. And if you get to trial (without being coerced into a guilty plea for something you may not have done [1]), the cops will lie constantly in police reports and even on the stand. It happens so often it has a name: testalying [2]. The well-connected don't really get off on a "technicality". They simply never get charged in the first place. Only two people were ever charged because of Jeffrey Epstein. One is Epstein, who died, and the other is Ghislane Maxwell who got convicted of trafficking minors to... nobody in particular... and is now in a low-security work camp it's technically illegal for sex offenders to be in. And even if somehow you, as a connected person, are charged and convicted, well you just buy a pardon [3]. [1]: https://www.vera.org/news/how-the-criminal-legal-system-coer... [2]: https://www.chicagoappleseed.org/2020/11/09/testilying/ [3]: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pardons-clemency-ge... | ||