re: From Tiger Rant...Bama teabagger gets 2 year sentence

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Absolutely false. DAs throw out marginal cases all the time, even many "slam dunks", because the marginal conviction isnt worth the time and effort.

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If you excise that portion of what I said without regard to my case specific paragraph before, I might agree with you. This wasn't a marginal case. It came gift-wrapped with the "murder weapon," if you will. Once there was video, you could go to trial, put the police officer on the stand, have him identify the original video. Play it, rest and you would get a conviction with nothing more.

There was absolutely nothing marginal about this case which is why they absolutely blew him away to the point where he agreed to two years. Come on, guy.

ETA: No action of a similar character where there is clear video evidence gets a better deal than this. Most sexual assault cases (in addition to their under reporting) are really tough to prove and involve swearing matches. That gives would be defendants leverage. Here, we have a video. Nothing else could have occurred in this case but a plea or a conviction.