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LeJackal
Apr 5, 2011

Pingiivi posted:

For some reason most of the longform stuff I read are pretty sad/terrible. Here's a 2010 Pulitzer winner:
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

Holy mother of christ that makes me want to crawl into a bottle and never come out.

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LeJackal
Apr 5, 2011

Flaggy posted:

A really good article about the Brock Turner case and the woman fighting to get the judge removed: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/brock-turner-michele-dauber/

Wow, what a terrifying article. Our justice system is even more dysfunctional than I thought.

LeJackal
Apr 5, 2011

Maxwells Demon posted:

The judge has been voted out as of this week. So there's a good side to the story.

That's the most terrifying part of the tale.

LeJackal
Apr 5, 2011

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

By what metric, the incarceration rate?

It has more protections for defendants, such as a Constitutional bar against self-incrimination.

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