{"id":8533,"date":"2014-05-19T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:15:00","slug":"this-is-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8533","title":{"rendered":"This is justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;not sure what is going on in the courts around the US these days, but I know I don&#8217;t like it&#8230;.if you haven&#8217;t heard, on of the trendiest legal defenses that is being used across the country tries to get judges to take the economic impact or the &#8220;suitability&#8221; for jail time of the defendant when sentencing. The latest is this guy out in Oregon who got caught for his 7th DUI which has a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 days for repeat offenders, but this guy was let go with no time because the judge thought jail time would impact his business too much&#8230;yep, I guess now that the rich truly are immune to any law if it may cost them some money&#8230;.just like the judge out east who wouldn&#8217;t sentence a money manager to any jail time after he stole millions of dollars since he didn&#8217;t think the defendant was &#8220;suitable&#8221; for prison when he should have gone away for at least 10 years&#8230;and you remember the defense lawyer that got a kid off in Texas for killing 4 people in a drunken driving accident by citing he was damaged by &#8220;affluenza&#8221;&#8230;being so rich all his life that he didn&#8217;t understand that there are consequences to his actions&#8230;what the hell is wrong with this country? No wonder there is so much criminality going on with the rich&#8230;they know they can get away with it&#8230;geez&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;not sure what is going on in the courts around the US these days, but I know I don&#8217;t like it&#8230;.if you haven&#8217;t heard, on of the trendiest legal defenses that is being used across the country tries to get judges to take the economic impact or the &#8220;suitability&#8221; for jail time of the defendant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is justice?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1062,348],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-affluenza","tag-courts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8534,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}