#felony laws

[satireinfo]

Shoplifting in California: Shocking Discovery That Laws Still Exist

The Golden State’s Newest Retail Trend: Take Now, Worry Later Written in Seal Beach, California, by Clara Contrarian   Seal Beach, California – The Golden State is no stranger to making headlines, but even by California standards, the recent shoplifting saga at a Seal Beach department store has left many slack-jawed. A suspect caught in the act expressed genuine shock that her actions were still…

[phoenixyfriend]

Went through the comments to find the best response. I like the above, but I'd like to remind people that a lot of those felons who cannot vote are in states where people of color are disproportionately incarcerated for, among other things, drug possession.

Some of them still have felony records in states where marijuana is now legal, because they once carried marijuana before it was legal. Biden may have issued a full pardon to people who were convicted of felony charges on a federal level or in DC, but that didn't do anything for people convicted of state felonies. For instance, weed is now legal in Virginia, but it carried a felony charge for years. Gov. Youngkin recently rolled back initiatives that were restoring voting rights to former felons. There were no initiatives to pardon marijuana felonies in particular, as far as I can tell.

Think further back, to the criminalization of things like sodomy or miscegenation. Both being gay and marrying someone of another race carried felony charges at certain times, and that included states where finishing out a sentence would not restore the right to vote. New York was the first state to bring sodomy down from a felony to 'just' a misdemeanor... in 1950. There are people who are still listed on sex offender registries because a cop saw them flirting with someone of the same gender and decided to get involved.

A lot of things are felonies, or were at some point.

Do you think that gay men serving out sentences for Being Gay should have been able to vote, back when that was a felony? What about black men who got involved with a white woman, with her full and enthusiastic consent, but hey, her parents didn't like it so they called the cops? What about that teenager who got caught with a little over an ounce of weed, he was going to share with friends, but now he cannot vote, ever, because of it, even though those same friends and the cop who arrested him can smoke the same strain in the streets?

And maybe you agree with the states that say 'sure, you can vote, but only after you finish out your sentence,' but...

Do you think that maybe those gay folk could have voted for more progressive candidates to lessen sentencing guidelines on sodomy? Do you think maybe those black folk could have voted for more progressive candidates to wipe miscegenation laws from the books? Do you think that teenager deserves to vote at least once in his life?

It's not just a matter of 'putting people away for made-up political offenses,' it's also about entire demographics getting disproportionately put away and stripped of their rights, ensuring that it takes even longer to change things.

It's also fair to allow convincted felons to run for office, maybe even while they are in prison. Not just the guy imprisoned on fraudulent charges to get him out of the way of his political opponents, but the guy who got busted for marijuana and hasn't finished his time behind bars yet, too.

Plenty of activists have been convicted of felonies... especially miscegenation up there. Maybe it would have be nice to have someone convicted of a felony for distributing an anti-cop-city flyer on the ballot some day. I don't know anything about them, but that's a dumb reason to be banned from interacting with public service for good.

I do think that, after everything, Trump still should have the right to vote, because anyone over the age of eighteen, both in prison and out.

I also think that "if you commit sedition and conspire to insurrection, you are constitutionally not allowed to run for office" is a rule that applies here.

Happy Donald Trump is a convicted criminal to all who celebrate

but remember, he can, will and is still running for President, even as a convicted felon

[jurph]

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

If a fetus absorbs their twin in the womb do we have to charge them with murder once they pop out?

[jealousmartini]

So I've been seeing a bunch of people going to the chase bank place to get a "money glitch" and I feel like it needs to be said, THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING 400,000 OR WHATEVER FOR FREE. THIS IS NOT A GLITCH. THEY ARE COMMITTING BANK FRAUD. THIS IS A FELONY AGAINST THE BANK!!!!! PLEASE DO NOT THIS

[giantmonster]

[chialattea]

Ok this is getting ridiculous— onscreen Blackbeard is like, good but he’s never actually won a fight— but THE SECOND the camera pans out SUDDENLY HES WON?? Is Oda hiding his stronger abilities from us? Does he have yet ANOTHER devil fruit??? WHAT IS HIS SECRET??

[edettethegreat]

invading your kid’s privacy by going through their things? You mean the thing that got Gloucester killed?

[tomorrowusa]

Some polls show that Trump's 34 felony convictions have somewhat been a net negative for him. This one from POLITICO-ipsos continues the trend.

This poll was conducted from June 7-9 and had a sample of 1,027 adults, age 18 or older, who were interviewed online; it has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points for all respondents. This is the fourth poll on the Trump prosecutions that POLITICO Magazine has conducted in partnership with Ipsos since last summer.

Twenty-two percent of respondents said that the conviction is important to how they will vote and that it makes them less likely to support Trump. Only 6 percent of respondents took the other side of that question — reporting that the conviction is important to how they will vote and that it makes them more likely to support Trump.

More than twice as many independents say they are now less likely to vote for Trump as opposed to those who are now more inclined to vote for Trump.

In states decided by small margins, a few thousand votes by independents can make a huge difference.

In conversation, don't just say Donald Trump – say convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender Donald Trump. A bit of a mouthful, but successful advertising campaigns are ones that use a lot of repetition. Liberals need to get over their obsessive and counterproductive reluctance to repeat things. If you want to win then repeat a lot.

The Biden-Harris campaign produced this ad to show the difference between what convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender Trump has been doing and what Biden is doing.

[penumbrapodcastincorrectquotes]

Juno: For my detective class I need to do a year of felonies

Rita: You get to do a year of committing felonies!

[420jimmyuso]

low quality finndamian kicking ass .. arent they just so dreamy ?

[yoursghouly]

idk why trump’s so scared to go to prison… i mean, the dude already loves wearing orange

[remembertheplunge]

experience, flexibility, insight

May 30, 2024

"Human law is imperfect.There will always be unprecedented circumstances. Thus, we must go beyond rules and operate instead from pure wisdom. We must act with experience, flexibility and insight. Let us absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeat—that we do the right thing intuitively” from 365 Tao Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao

Donald Trump was convicted of 34 Felony counts today in New York.That puts us in unprecedented territory. What happens next? Where do we go with this? “We must act with experience, flexibility and insight’…I discovered the above quote from 365 Tao this morning during what I call my morning read. In the half hour between 4:45 and 5:15am, I read from about 10 “inspirational” books. I make margin notes in them  and as the years pass, review them as well.This is where I record insights gained from the previous day and the night’s sleep. Often the most painful experience render the greatest insights in the margins of the morning books.  Then, I hit the gym and lift some weights before court. I do this so that I am loose and nimble  when I hit court. Court is a dance of competing forces, limited time, and sometimes high stake decisions. There are no hard and fast rules to negotiating my way through it. The law provides a framework but we are its breat and spirit. Our movements are informed by our experience, flexibility and insight. This same way we move through a day in court can be applied to our take on the national scene to factor in a Presidential candidate with felony convictions. It’s a given. now. It’s an “Is” now. We dance with it. And, we see where it goes.

[miercolaes]

hi guys im popping in here to let u all know that im going to turn the anon feature off for an indefinite amount of time. i've received yet another negative anon that harasses the same individuals and i'm honestly not having it. i'm currently talking to tumblr staff about it ( i don't know if there's something they can do, but we can only hope for a feature similar to instagram's blocking system ). i don't even know the people they are talking about and tbh, i hate the chain messages, especially when they're about this kind of topic. friendly reminder to report the messages and block the individual sending these!

if the harassment towards you continues and there's nothing the platform can do, i kindly remind you to think about the legal perspective. the cybersmile organization talks about it here. in my research paper i also found that if you check your local laws you should find something there that will help you. under the cut is an excerpt i used on my cyberbullying paper a few months ago ( some of you know about it, since you helped me with it & i thank you again ).

A notable example is found in the legislative framework of the state of Florida, within Chapter 784, aptly designated "Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence." A central feature of this legal edifice is Article 784.048, titled "Stalking; definitions; penalties." Paragraph (3) of this article explicates the criminal liability ascribed to individuals who, with deliberate intent and malevolence, engage in a sustained pattern of stalking, harassment, or cyber-harassment, concurrently issuing credible threats directed towards another person. This pernicious comportment is legally delineated as "aggravated stalking," constituting a felony of the third degree, with punitive consequences expounded upon within Articles 775.082, 775.083, or 775.084 of the Florida Statutes. Importantly, within the purview of the Florida Statutes, the concept of cyberbullying is meticulously demarcated as the act of "engaging in conduct to communicate, or cause to be communicated, directly or indirectly, words, images, or language through the use of emails or other electronic communication methods, directed to or belonging to a particular person," as articulated in paragraph (1)(d) of the statutory framework.

[robpegoraro]

Former area resident encounters belated accountability

Respect to a dozen New Yorkers who showed up and did the work that certain judges and senators seem incapable of doing.

Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses. This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony…

[muddypolitics]

We respect the rule of law

Trump Verdict Gets Little Reaction From the White House - The New York Times