• D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    What are the chances that these people will get pardoned, etc, when(if) normality returns?

    Also what’s the chances that the judge who handed down these long and unfair sentences will get any repercussions for being so obviously corrupt?

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      Unlikely. The US executes people when there’s so much new evidence after sentencing pointing toward them not being guilty that the original prosecutors plead for them to not execute. The Dem establishment’s complaints against ICE are mostly just procedural; they just argue for things like more transparency for these detention centers, not their abolishment.

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      3 hours ago

      A full pardon? Maybe for some of them, especially the zine guy, but the guy who actually shot the cop, unlikely. No democrat would want the optics of that.

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      6 hours ago

      I hope they stand a good chance for an appeal based on the jury selection fuckery

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      11 hours ago

      Honestly 50/50

      You can’t really bounce back from the bullshit that has just ensued immediately, it’s also kinda apparent to your average leftist that the democratic party is kind spineless as fuck when it comes to the right, so to have judges IN TEXAS MIND YOU bounce back from their previous decisions? Not gonna be too easy