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*sigh* And yet, when I was being harassed and sworn at and threatened by some teenagers who were illegally smoking on the train because I asked them not to do it around me (asthmatic) and my infant daughter, and they actually followed me off the train and onto another one, there wasn't a DART cop in sight.
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Hmmm, I don't know anything about this particular incident. However, the Dallas Observer is not known for its quality reporting. It's a free newspaper that hires amateur reporters. The reporters sensationalize every story in order to build a name for themselves. Sometimes it's a nice counterbalance to the major papers over here, but I tend to be somewhat skeptical of their stories.
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quote:from the article: Lyon couldn't afford to bond out of jail. After 11 days, a public defender told him the only way she could get him out was for him to enter a no-contest--in other words, guilty--plea on the charges against him. He did it.
I read an essay a couple weeks ago that argued that the prevalence of plea-bargains is destroying our legal system, because the people who are guilty merely need to bargain and they'll be let out of jail. Innocent people cannot plea-bargain without lying.
And nobody should ever go to jail just for jaywalking.
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