So Chris Brown had his hearing yesterday, I believe, and the judge did not issue any jail time. Even though there was direct testimony from the victim proving that he beat the shit out of her. Timmay I need a lawyers take on this. First Donte Stallworth gets 23 days in jail for killing a man while driving while intoxicated, now Chris Brown gets no jail time for beating the shit out of his girl friend. Is our society that fucked up or what? I can some what understand the stallworth situation becuase he was forced to compensate the family. I still think if it was an average person they would spend a minimum of 10 years behind bars, but I believe in that decision all parties agreed on a sentence that they all could live with. In this case, I just dont get why this fucking loser isn't going to live with the rapists and child molestors of the world. The real kicker is he has a restraining order now that says he cannot be within a 100 yards of Rihanna, and she is upset with that ruling and she was hoping that he would be able to be in contact with her again. Huh are you mental lady? This guy bashed your fucking face in. Now you want to forgive him? I have never ever raised my hands in anger to a woman, and I think it is quite possible the worst thing a man can do. I will never understand how women could go back to there man after something like this. Anyways maybe someone with a little more insight could fill me in, becuase I am at a loss of words right now.
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I totally agree with the woman getting back with the fucker who beats them. i have asked myself that question a million times and find no real answer when ive asked the woman victim as well. they tell me he has changed and he really loves me. well i guess love is a fucked up thing in some peoples lives. i too think besides rape that is the worst thing. and i have no sympathy for someone who goes back and it happens again.
As for the stallworth thing, i do agree that the average person would get a harsher penelty, but the average person cant afford the top lawyers to have them spend months on just there case. and compared to other athletes in similar situations i heard he was very helpful with the DA and he turned himself in right after it happened.
I have given this topic much thought and have asked myself if it happened to me would do i think should happen? I mean we all have gotten really drunk and got behind the wheel, this very well could be anyone of us, the mojarity of us are good people and lead good lives (for the most part) do we deserve 10-20 years for one mistake? a huge mistake, but a mistake? i dont think myself or anyone could answer that unless it happened.
It is confusing. I saw an article today that the dude who stole Lance Armstrong's bicycle was sentenced to 3 years for felony grand larceny. Stallworth basically walks, Chris Brown walks.
I'm guessing the guy in Armstrong's case wasn't a first-time offender. They always hit you harder with repeat offenses. Plus, there's really no excuse for stealing someone's property.
A jury can understand that you had about 2 or 3 beers over the limit and thought you were okay, and maybe that guy gets killed anyway even if you're dead sober.
A jury can understand that people in relationships fight and bad shit happens. I think everybody has probably hit somebody in anger at some point. When the woman is wanting the fucker back and saying it was probably her fault, people have a tendency to throw up their hands and say they deserve one another, none of my business.
With the bike, there's really no sympathy. You wanted something that wasn't yours. You took it. You're guilty. Open. Shut.
Brown took a plea deal, there was no trial. They made an offer for a guilty plea of 180 days of community service, plus 5 years of probation. The guy does have to do community service for 180 days. Assuming 5 days a week of work, that's pretty much 8 months. That's a lot. With the probation, if he does anything like this again, or has a fuck up of a different kind, he likely will do prison time. Personally, I think Rihanna's desire to forgive him is a factor. The prosecution can no longer rely on her to deliver the whole truth at trial, and that creates a risk that Brown could have been acquitted completely, and walked with no record, no community service, no probation.
On the Stallworth case, that was a tougher case. You've got a guy running into traffic who could have been killed by anybody, sober or drunk, and you've got a driver who was over the limit but not so blasted that he couldn't have been driving as well as the average 60 year old sober person. He still got the DUI conviction, but if it's hard to prove that the drinking and driving caused the death, how much of a gamble do you take at trial? Especially when he has great lawyers devoting their attention to that one case, while the prosecutor has 50 cases to worry about.
Life isn't fair. People aren't fair to one another. It's no surprise that our government, by the people, for the people and of the people, is as imperfect as the people.
As an add-on...
I do think the courts, prosecutors, cops, etc., do have an inkling that sometimes these high profile people lose more in these cases than the anonymous low-life who does 90 days for a domestic.
If Chris Brown is a jobless, no money-having, drug addicted douchebag with a record, his freedom is basically the only thing he has to lose. It's the only thing you can take.
Brown has probably lost millions in endorsements, contracts, etc. He has had his dirty laundry aired in every major news outlet nationwide - worldwide. He's got 5 years probation hanging over his head. He has to work 180 days of community service, which is probably humiliating for a douchebag, cocky, full-of-himself asshole music star.
Some would argue that he has actually been punished a lot more than the anonymous 800,000 guys who beat their wives last year and served some jail time, whom we will never hear about and never curse their name in a blog.
How many resources do you expend, when he's already agreed to plead guilty, just to try to force him into some jail time when the victim is liable to say just about anything to help him out?
What are you some kind of layer...sheesh
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