6 months in prison folowed by 12 months supervised release, too harsh?

Vladenschlutte
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:53:31 +0000

The same arguments were made when the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Illinois, which is a heavily Jewish community that had many Holocaust survivors living there at the time (1977). The city argued that to have Nazis march bearing swastikas would promote hatred and would inflict emotional harm on the Holocaust survivors.

They did not have the specific intent to intimidate. So free speech.

This noose guy has the specific intent to intimidate. So a crime.

I don’t know why this student pled guilty. Perhaps he didn’t want a long drawn out court battle, perhaps he couldn’t afford a long drawn out court battle and couldn’t get an organization like the ACLU to take up his case.

We can’t start questioning about whether people are pleading to crimes they haven’t committed. We simply have to assume, that if someone admits to a crime in court under oath, they really did it.