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Originally Posted by Barefoot
I don't understand why you can't see the disparity in the treatment of the two cases.
The sex/square couple were not a safety and security issue.
Yet they were the focus of intense scrutiny.
Obviously the man firing shots into an occupied car was very much a safety and security issue.
The accused even missed some court dates!
And yet the case seems to have disappeared off the radar.
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Bare, I was appalled at the scrutiny of the "sex on the square" case. I disagreed with how it was handled and I donated to the defense fund. However, many people still believe that they were "thrown in the slammer" (to quote the previous poster) by a judge, when in fact they were not. They took a plea deal. I wish they hadn't, but they did.
My point is, people should stop using that incident as some kind of litmus test to judge other cases. I don't know what is going on with the shooter incident, but I'm sure that it hasn't just "gone away". As is the case with many criminal cases, they get prolonged, and you just don't hear much about them until they go to trial.