News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
And it took THREE YEARS for such a simple case?
She and he can afford very good lawyers, and the state had to make the case watertight against her without damaging their upcoming case against him.
Yes, we know there's a reason for it. Maybe a justice system that needs a perfect case BEFORE holding rich people accountable... is not a good system.
I would rather it take a long time than too quickly sentence an innocent person.
man they sentencing innocent poor people left and right out here
Yep, and often the wrong one.
That is a pathetic stupid false dichotomy. Why is it either a "justice" system that cannot hold the rich accountable, OR a system that murders innocents?
You are just making excuses for them. Stop it.
This is literally a story about her being held accountable. We can, and very nearly do, have one that doesn't do both.
You are replying to a question about how it took so long, not that it didn't happen.
Again, stop playing in to the false dichotomy. It's pathetic.
What do you suggest, then?
Handing power to adults and not immature children who happen to have gotten old. That'd be a real fucking stellar start. Then let's stop having Congressman be rich dipshits whos wallstreet portfolios out do the best wallstreet investors by tens of percentages.
Imagine typing this out and accusing other people of not acting like adults.
Imagine thinking an immature insult is a valid comeback. You fucking goons are pathetic. Have fun watching your freedoms and life slip away, because you wanted to be cool instead of right. Fucking loser.
It might not be valid (whatever that means). But holy shit is it obvious that I hit the nail right on the head.
"Socialite" = rich person
Money makes court take more time.
It's a case where a pedestrian was killed by a motorist in the US. It's lucky they even brought a case, much less got a conviction.
I'd ask for evidence you have to back up the implicit claim that it's unlikely that someone would recklessly kill a person with a car and actually get charged for, but I know I would just receive downvotes and no actual evidence. This is lemmy, after all, and you're shitting on America. That's the only important thing.
Adding insult to injury (or death), 60% of the 238 motorists found to be at fault or suspected of a crime in the death of a pedestrian faced no criminal charges. When drivers did face criminal charges, punishment was often light. Even more confounding, licenses were rarely suspended. Of those few people who were charged with a crime, less than 60% had their driving privileges suspended or revoked for even one day. 40% of those convicted faced no more than a day in jail.