[Rant] "Justice"

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Those of you who've been around may recall the incident in December 2004 when Kim's car was broken into while she was stopped in traffic by a notorious smash-and-grab thief, a repeat offender and known scumbag.

They caught the fucker a couple weeks later. He's been locked up since.

The New Orleans District Attorney called us a couple weeks ago, to get Kim out there to testify in court. The intent was to add to his life sentence the impossibility of parole.

So, yesterday, in front of a judge and a jury of neither his peers nor hers (a half-dozen elderly black folks), badgered by the compleat picture of the pompous public defender (jovial, condescending, oversized, regal of hair and loud of suit), Kim had to relive one of the most awful events of her life.

... and then have the jury think she was lying, and find the guy not guilty.

Yes, I absolutely think the verdict was about race. When a desperate black criminal preys on a white woman, and she picks him out of a lineup and says "That's the motherfucker who was half-in my car, stealing my stuff, less than a foot away from me," of course she's lying and has pre-judged him.

When Kim told me this, we were both glad I wasn't present at the trial, because I would have had to be restrained. I would have tied to kick the shit out of the defendant, his lawyer, and every single one of those bigoted, dishonest, self-serving fucks in the jury.



Tyrone Conner, you subhuman sack of shit, may you rot in prison until you choke on a deserved shiv.

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Our consolation is in the fact that this ... person ... is locked up and not going anywhere; her testimony was merely to put one more nail in his coffin, so to speak, and the failure of yesterday doesn't mean he'll be going free.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

That's not quite so horrible. As long as he has enough nails, his life will still be suitably unpleasant from now on. Although... does your state do consecutive sentencing? The UK doesn't, so one more crime of the same kind doesn't make much difference to length of sentence (just to chance of conviction). I guess it'd be frustrating to know he'd be out early, just because the jury didn't believe Kim.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

It's my understanding he's already got life from his current convictions and sentences (repeat offender, various crimes); the state is trying to augment that to life plus twenty, no chance of parole.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. Glad to hear it.