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https://twitter.com/sharkhand/status/1545812784813953026Really, tho, they were only illegal for gay people. This was never more evident than in a trial I watched that summer in Fairfax County, VA, where I was a public defender intern. It concerned a man’s attempt to hook up w/a guy who’d been hitting on him at Barnes & Noble.
https://twitter.com/JusticeFwdVa/status/1486831890657128448In Va., Lt. Caron Nazario would’ve been able to drive home from work w/o being pepper sprayed by police. And the corrupt Windsor Police who turned racist pretext stops into an art form wouldn’t have been sued for chronic civil rights violations
https://twitter.com/bradleyrhaywood/status/1441943842421235715The short version: of the nearly 13,000 inmates DOC released from prison in 2019, only 140 (1%) were released as a result of regular, discretionary parole. Moreover, only 30 of 1835 parolees in the community violated that year; a grand total ONE was on parole for homicide.
https://twitter.com/TimHugo/status/1346559132648824832Here's what happens: they realize they have nothing to lose. They require the gov't to prove its case at trial, forcing the gov't to face the prospect of re-traumatizing a child victim--or instead, plea bargaining. But how can it bargain when the only option is mandatory life? /2