• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    Article fails to mention that the judge also ruled that he will face no penalties or consequences for his actions. He literally got away with it. He literally got away with all of it.

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      Corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it’s a corporate dictatorship.

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    "The Defendant has been found guilty on 34 felony counts. The significance of the fact that the verdict was handed down by a unanimous jury …cannot possibly be overstated. …The sanctity of a jury verdict and the deference that must be accorded to it, is a bedrock principle in our … jurisprudence.”

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      "The sanctity of a jury verdict and the deference that must be accorded to it, is a bedrock principle in our … jurisprudence.

      The principle of actually enforcing punishment on wealthy individuals…not so much."

      Finished that statement for him.

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    i love it when my legal system is forced to show its true colors instead of all the lofty bullshit of “the rule of law”

    i hope it’s televised somehow so that i can watch the judge kowtow in real time to the reality of the system he himself probably doesn’t want to accept and tell himself that “it’s just this one time”