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Then compare those numbers to the amount of career criminals that are back on the streets because their defense attorney found a loophole in the laws, a flaw in the evidence, or the county was so overwhelmed by cases they convinced the DA to lessen the charges.
This sucks and is true and is unfortunately, part of the system. I asked Sonya for some legal advice recently because my brother was stabbed with a 6 inch hunting (Rambo) knife in the ribs. He had to have emergency surgery and a blood transfusion and nearly died on the operating table. This happened about 6 months ago. He'd gotten into an argument with his tweaker neighbor and the guy showed up at his house 20 min later, knocked on the door and jumped in and stabbed my brother as soon as he opened the door. Pics below.
The guys is most likely only going to get about 5-7 years for that. D.A. told my bro 80% time for good behavior, so probably 4-5.5 years. That seems like a really small amount of time for someone who is psychotic/sociopathic enough to try and kill someone over an argument. You can imagine how pissed off I am about it. And who fucking knows what this guy will do when he gets out? Finish the job maybe?
Sadly, the situation is what it is. The courts are overwhelmed with the volume of cases. Would I be pissed if this guy walks on a technicality? How about if he walks and then my brother ends up dead in a month? Of course I would, that would be devastating and makes my stomach hurt to even think of it. But at the same time....it's part of the justice system. This system protects you and me and everyone else from medieval justice. Otherwise, I'd have already found this dude and blown his fucking head off, medieval style. In a free society, sometimes criminals will walk.
Fun fact, the reason his wife was able to get a pic of the knife if because it was buried to the hilt in my brothers ribs...Dude ran off after he stabbed him and left the knife.
