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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I actually started this thread, so don't tell me how to run it- okay?
And I asked the simple question, "why would anyone feel arresting him is shocking?"
You seem to feel he was justified in fleeing, because a judge was behaving oddly. If I chose to engage that point I would devastate your position by simply noting "judges behaving oddly" is a really good reason to avoid our courts entirely.
And I don't care if his fleeing was righteous or not. he is now done fleeing, and will hopefully see a judge that behaves less oddly.
as a man more schooled in the criminal justice system than either of us once said: "Don't go to bed with no price on your head. Don't do it. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
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Well, I did not actually say that he was justified in fleeing. I said that, after I saw the documentary, I recall feeling that I would have fled too. And apparently the prosecutor, victim, and a number of reviewers who saw the movie had similar feelings. And I think there is a serious difference between a "judge behaving oddly," and a "judge subverting the legal system to satisfy his own megalomanical desires." But you are an advocate entitled to spin it however you feel. Ultimately, if we could we strip away your tunnel-visioned moral indignation, we would probably agree that 1) it is not that surprising that a person who fled prosecution would get arrested and extradited, and 2) the chances of the same type of judicial misconduct occurring if and when he is returned to trial here now are probably fairly slim.
