Comment on How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it?

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now that I 100% agree with. News absolutely minimizes cases against the affluent or connected.

  Now occasionally we do get news about it, but the outcome it always something like this:

  kqed.org/…/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-o…

  She got busted buying and selling fentanyl, tried to blame it on her housekeeper, and has had over a year of walking free to fight it.

  Part of the reason for the extensions in the case is “differences in the government’s and the defendant’s views of the facts,” Segovia’s attorney, Will Edelman, wrote in a court filing.

  Edelman, citing health issues and personal difficulties, is withdrawing from the case and Segovia will be represented by attorney Adam Gasner. Edelman noted in his filing that finding a new attorney for Segovia and transitioning the case to Gasner required additional time.

  Nonetheless, “the parties have engaged in extensive back-and-forth discussions about such potential resolutions, including multiple meetings, presentations, and detailed correspondence,” Edelman wrote. He characterized the talks as productive.

  "A potential case resolution that has been discussed and refined extensively remains a possibility,” he wrote.

  The news media doesn’t spend as much time focusing on cases like these because they don’t like people having to see how anyone with money or connections can just pay to endlessly appeal and then walk away with a weak ass plea bargain and a slap on the wrist.

  The reason they don’t show it is they don’t want poor people wising up to how fucking different the legal system is for them versus the rich and/or connected.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fantastic follow up dude/tte. I hate the bias the media/news pushes, but at the same time if that’s the stuff the general public had to go off, the general vibe of people would be much worse as well, so give and take and little doing your own vetting instead of just accepting what’s in front of you.

    The drug houses on the block weren’t in the news, only gossip and what you could dig up (00-10) from ads, but the places were listed as “remediated (mold)” and with the fact that you never really saw anyone there you could 2 and 2 together.

    The one had a car parked along the green space after 10pm every Friday, cops asked the neighbours about anything suspicious, shut the water/power off and waited for complaints. Started smelling the next day since the filters weren’t working from lack of airflow.

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