ThirdOfFive |
11-20-2022 10:24 AM |
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Originally Posted by tophcfa
(Post 2159130)
Now that Oren Miller is a convicted felon and is off the streets of the Villages does anyone feel safer? Let’s see, a harmless senior citizen whose trivial crime was misremembering (that’s a Roger Clemens term) the details of some telephone conversations is now behind bars. Meanwhile, wife beaters, drug dealers, drunken drivers, golf cart thieves, and many other dangerous criminals we should all be afraid of are walking around freely on our streets.
Something is seriously wrong with this picture. The moral of the story is that it’s not the crime one commits, it’s the people in high places that one rubs the wrong way that really matters.
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I know very little about the case—but this is the way our system works. The judge didn’t find him guilty. A randomly-selected jury of his peers did that, and as I understand it, it took that jury something like twenty-seven minutes to arrive at that verdict.
Oh—and about whether or not we feel safer with “wife beaters, drug dealers, drunken drivers, golf cart thieves, and many other dangerous criminals” allegedly walking around freely on our streets—well, dunno about the rest of the folks here, but for a good ten years living in my former residence near Minneapolis - St. Paul, I never went into the cities without carrying personal protection. Here in TV, even though I am qualified to do so under Florida law, I haven’t done so even once.
The law seems to be doing an exceptional job here.
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