Do the crime do the time?

[akarunway 1]

This is truly fucked up. Lawyers out there? Opinions?>http://media.steamboatpilot.com/drudge/food.html?local_news I gather they were getting food for the homeless? > "Charlé most recently worked as a social worker. Siller is an Americorps volunteer and a yoga instructor. Both men had plans to go to graduate school, family and friends said."

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[DZJ 0]

Once again the gap between legality and morality seems particularly wide.

(That said, I wonder if there's more to this situation than the article claims)

[slug 1]

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I gather they were getting food for the homeless?

Hi akarunway

reply] Homeless? not really More like recycling

The two mwen were passing thru STEAMBOAT SPRINGS CO. $$$$$$$$

"The men were on their way to the "Rainbow Family of Living Light Gathering" in North Routt County"

Google rainbow family and the steamboat chamber of commerce and you'll get the picture.

Make some room on the "group W bench" Arlo

R.I.P.

[StreetScooby 5]

Unbelievable. 6 months in jail??? Outrageous.

We are all engines of karma

[Nightingale 0]

If they'd been prosecuted out of the office I worked for over the summer, a first offense trespass would've been 0-30 days in jail depending on circumstance, fines, and 3 years informal probation (no probation officer, just don't screw up again in the next three years).

I don't know the whole story, beyond what's in the posted article, but it sounds like prosecutorial blackmail. "Take this rediculous plea bargain, or risk having a felony on your record that will haunt you the rest of your life." Sure, prosecutors offer plea bargains like that all the time, but when the felony charge isn't deserved to begin with, it's abuse of the system.

[dorbie 0]

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Sure, prosecutors offer plea bargains like that all the time, but when the felony charge isn't deserved to begin with, it's abuse of the system.

Prosecutorial abuse & blackmail? In America? Surely you jest, this could NEVER happen here.

I'm sure the good voters will rouse and swiftly correct the problem before more innocent victims are jailed by another amoral career politician on a media rampage. Let nobody say that the good electorate of this fine nation are asleep at the helm of justice.