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[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

…one count of interference with the judicial process.

That’s IT?!?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Well yeah.

Just enough to convince the people that are convinced of his innocence that he's being wrongfully punished, those who don't bother looking into the punishment to say"yep he got punished", and it's not like they have anything to worry about from the rest of the population who will only be upset over a light slap on the wrist but not do anything about it.

System working as intended.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Wellllll.... no. Optimistically. They certainly are trying to work out the statute of limitations on his various crimes versus what chargeable evidence blah blah blah

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Glad they're charging him with the felony. I really really hope he cuts a deal and incriminates the county council members that hired him to be their bulldog in the first place.

He did not go after that council member without their explicit instruction, I promise you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meyer's 98-year-old mother Joan Meyer, also a co-owner of the newspaper, lived with him and was home at the time of the raid. She collapsed and died the day after the raid, and Meyer blamed her death on the stress of the raid.

Maybe but at 98 she could have just died at any time

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could too. I'd even bet had this happened to you that there would be a measurable increase in your risk of death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes but it’s easier to argue in a young person than an elderly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Proximate cause (but if) and preponderance of evidence are what decides that in civil trials. Cody and the county are going to lose on both for her wrongful death suit.