Hypocrisy 101 w/ 'Plea Bargain' Pete Coors

This is such bullshit. (0.00 / 0)

These people are so deserving of defeat.  As for cheapening the story, I wonder what the deal is with the victims in this case and this despicable ad.  9 News has been calling for the dishonest stuff in the ad to be cut.

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by: CO Democrat @ Sun Sep 24, 2006 at 21:34:02 PM CDT

Take 'em all to trial, then throw them in prison (0.00 / 0)

Of course, that would take even more than the $533.1 million  per year that our state already spends on locking people up.  And, for anyone who has been to the Denver Courthouse, one can see that this would mean adding judges and courtrooms to accomodate the additional trials resulting from a reduction in plea-bargained cases.  Nevermind that Colorado's incarceration rate is 438 per 100,000 adult residents--a 500% increase since 1980, and a rate that exceeds that of South Africa, Israel, Mexico, England, Australia, and China, among others.

Logistically, it would have been very difficult for Ritter's office to take more cases to trial than it did.  As even John Suthers admitted, Ritter's plea bargain rate was right at about the average for a large metropolitan DA's office.  Additionally, trials are (a) expensive, (b) time-consuming, and (c) full of uncertainty. 

Casey Mulligan

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by: leveller @ Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 11:56:39 AM CDT

Ah, but if the (0.00 / 0)

system were privatized, we could build all the courts we wanted, all the prisons to hold all the new miscreants, and make huge profits to boot!

Trailhead (or their newly renamed doppleganger) doesn't give a lick about the "victim" or about the process.  They exist only to lie and smear those they oppose.  It's Gov. Owens, the Coors family, and Benson all in one handy package.

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by: WeatherDem @ Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 13:18:55 PM CDT

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