16-09-2025, 08:00 PM
(16-09-2025, 07:52 PM)Altruist Wrote: these cases barely happen irl. criminal law is extremely graded when it comes to penalizing, so you won't see guys like manletmachine being between walking free or getting "years in prison". at worst, he's gonna look at a suspended sentence.
those cases of people walking away because of procedural mistakes are also just hollywood nonsense. criminal codes always contain provisions that allow state attorneys to fix such mistakes; most of the time, the court is even obligated to warn them of those and instruct them to fix them (i. e., returning the incomplete or unclear indictment to them so that they could add the missing formal requirements or clarify the statement of facts which should give rise to reasonable doubt). also,99% of the time, you ll have a case going through the hands of multiple state attorneys, so there's no real chance they'll make some horrible mistake that would prevent even the judge from warning them about
what jurisdiction are you talking about? Manlet I believe got away with it not due to any procedural lapse but the accusation against him was heavily weakened by a video that was uploaded publicly. Although Id venture to guess its also very hard to argue against unlwaful entry/wielding of authority, would be interesting to see how the state would say fill in the gaps of cops being too greedy and muscling somebody inside their premises without a warrant esp. if they arent gazzetted. Reasonable doubt I guess could be eliminated or kept to a minimum but I read a case recently where somebody collecting a shipment of narcotics got away with it since they hadn't opened it yet, dude got out by arguing he was not conscious of posession.
