• [OT] American judges tougher than Canadian ones

    From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 11:59:54 2025
    A "Canadian" drug dealer found himself in a legal jackpot and decided to
    defend himself, apparently thinking American judges would be as soft as Canadian judges. It didn't work out that way....

    https://windsorstar.com/opinion/columnists/hunter-windsor-area-dope-kingpin-thought-u-s-judges-are-like-ours-he-was-wrong

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    Rhino

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to no_offline_contact@example.com on Wed Jun 25 12:10:59 2025
    On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:59:54 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    A "Canadian" drug dealer found himself in a legal jackpot and decided to >defend himself, apparently thinking American judges would be as soft as >Canadian judges. It didn't work out that way....

    https://windsorstar.com/opinion/columnists/hunter-windsor-area-dope-kingpin-thought-u-s-judges-are-like-ours-he-was-wrong

    I'm still PO'd with the Vancouver guy who after 4 convictions for
    assault / assault with a deadly weapon is on trial for 3 more assaults
    and whose lawyer is demanding concurrent sentencing with no
    incarceration.

    I get the guy has a drug issue and would not mind over much if he was
    coupling that sentencing proposal with entrance into a custodial drug
    treatment program but NOOOOOO................

    (Can you spell "See you next month your honor!"? To me that's the
    epitome of "revolving door 'justice'"! Do the victims not deserve
    protection AT ALL? And with this record the only genuine protection is
    getting him off the street - for a minimum - e.g. no pre-release - for
    6-12 months)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 12:12:07 2025
    On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:40:03 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Jun 25, 2025 at 8:59:54 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >wrote:

    A "Canadian" drug dealer found himself in a legal jackpot and decided to
    defend himself, apparently thinking American judges would be as soft as
    Canadian judges. It didn't work out that way....


    https://windsorstar.com/opinion/columnists/hunter-windsor-area-dope-kingpin-thought-u-s-judges-are-like-ours-he-was-wrong

    FAFO. We're not playing anymore more.

    Somebody dealing drugs in Windsor OUGHT to have a reasonable idea what sentencing is like in Detroit. Certainly far better than a dealer in
    say Edmonton...

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 18:40:03 2025
    On Jun 25, 2025 at 8:59:54 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    A "Canadian" drug dealer found himself in a legal jackpot and decided to defend himself, apparently thinking American judges would be as soft as Canadian judges. It didn't work out that way....


    https://windsorstar.com/opinion/columnists/hunter-windsor-area-dope-kingpin-thought-u-s-judges-are-like-ours-he-was-wrong

    FAFO. We're not playing anymore more.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Wed Jun 25 17:51:44 2025
    On 2025-06-25 3:10 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:59:54 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    A "Canadian" drug dealer found himself in a legal jackpot and decided to
    defend himself, apparently thinking American judges would be as soft as
    Canadian judges. It didn't work out that way....

    https://windsorstar.com/opinion/columnists/hunter-windsor-area-dope-kingpin-thought-u-s-judges-are-like-ours-he-was-wrong

    I'm still PO'd with the Vancouver guy who after 4 convictions for
    assault / assault with a deadly weapon is on trial for 3 more assaults
    and whose lawyer is demanding concurrent sentencing with no
    incarceration.

    I get the guy has a drug issue and would not mind over much if he was coupling that sentencing proposal with entrance into a custodial drug treatment program but NOOOOOO................

    (Can you spell "See you next month your honor!"? To me that's the
    epitome of "revolving door 'justice'"! Do the victims not deserve
    protection AT ALL? And with this record the only genuine protection is getting him off the street - for a minimum - e.g. no pre-release - for
    6-12 months)

    This guy sounds like someone who ought to be locked up for at least a
    decade.

    This country is so messed up by all the bleeding-heart justice we've had
    for the last 10 years. The activist judges have eagerly followed the instructions of the "progressives" in the Liberal Party to give everyone possible bail, even if they commit new offenses while waiting for their
    trials on their original offenses. It's sheer lunacy. This has caused
    crime rates to rise alarmingly and offenders to reoffend with impunity.
    How is that making our country one bit better?

    Remember, this is the same party that was working on legislation to jail
    people pre-emptively over things they MIGHT say in the future. (I feel
    sure that Carney and his team are working on getting that legislation
    passed again now that we have a parliament again. Oh wait, they're off
    for the summer already aren't they, just two or three weeks after
    returning to Parliament. But I'm sure he's got people drafting that
    legislation so it's ready for the next parliamentary session.) The
    Liberals are just like the Conservatives AND Labour in the UK with their
    desire to imprison anyone who says anything that might be deemed hurtful
    to someone's feelings and completely indifferent to people who rob,
    steal or attack people.



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    Rhino

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