Dont' bring manga into Canada

[Ideologue]

Are the guns minor children?

[garbon]

Are the guns minor children?

Apparently on the video game front, Alito said that we're approach the age when a child will be able to feel the splatter of blood on his face and hands while playing a video game.

[dps]

I wouldn't say that a defendant is cheated when he or she trades a 5% chance of acquittal and a 95% chance of going to gaol for ten years for a 100% chance of only going to gaol for two, or one, or none.

It could be argued that the public interest is cheated in those circumstances, though.  But I can see why a prosecutor who knows that the accused is guilty of a crime for which they'd get 10-15 years, but wasn''t sure he could get a conviction would be willing to accept a plea to a charge that would get them 2-5 instead.

I don't have a problem with plea bargains in theory, but I don't think they should be so common that they're almost standard operating procedure, which appears to be the case in many jurisdictions.

[Ideologue]

I wouldn't say that a defendant is cheated when he or she trades a 5% chance of acquittal and a 95% chance of going to gaol for ten years for a 100% chance of only going to gaol for two, or one, or none.

It could be argued that the public interest is cheated in those circumstances, though.  But I can see why a prosecutor who knows that the accused is guilty of a crime for which they'd get 10-15 years, but wasn''t sure he could get a conviction would be willing to accept a plea to a charge that would get them 2-5 instead.

I don't have a problem with plea bargains in theory, but I don't think they should be so common that they're almost standard operating procedure, which appears to be the case in many jurisdictions.

It's also an efficiency thing.  Which I can see why someone might think sucks, but on the other hand it's a real concern in a world with finite resources.

Apparently on the video game front, Alito said that we're approach the age when a child will be able to feel the splatter of blood on his face and hands while playing a video game.

That's not the first thing I would use a holodeck for, but it might be the second.