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Wait the system... can work? It did in this instance at least, and it was a very important one. Three pieces of racist trash were found guilty of the horrifying murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Andrew explains the verdict. However, the system also... very much doesn't work. Andrew breaks down the disturbing case of a judge giving a 4 time rapist NO jail time after praying on it. Then finally, we break down an interesting new argument in the Trump records case.
Links: Kyle Rittenhouse Legal Eagle, Georgia Code § 16-5-1, Christopher Belter: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, House Brief, Court's 11/23 order, National Coal. to Save Our Mall v. Norton, 44 U.S. Code § 2204, Trump's reply brief

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Stormy Decisis

It's not exactly the case that sex offenders on the registry have an incurable condition. *Some* have paraphilic sexual interests that are unlikely to change but they can learn not to act on those drives in a harmful way - e.g., someone who has a paraphilia for voyeurism learns to satisfy that urge with role plays and erotica. So, the paraphilic urge (abnormal sexual drive) is largely unchangeable but the paraphilic disorder (abnormal sexual drive that causes harm or distress) can absolutely be treated. However, the majority of sex criminals don't have a paraphilia (an atypical sexual drive). Most rapists don't have a paraphilia for rape - they just want sex and don't care who they hurt.

Anonymous

I am enthusiastically against the death penalty in the vast majority of cases both because I consider killing someone to be an abhorrent power nobody should have and because it can't be reversed or compensated for if used disparately or against people falsely convicted (as anyone familiar with the Innocence Project knows very well it is!). But I am still awfully sympathetic to the very specific and narrow use of death as an appropriate punishment for lethal war crimes. In other words, prison for civilians, death for "intelligence agents" torturing in black sites and soldiers carrying out massacres. I have a very hard time reasoning or emotioning myself out of that position.