re: JBE Wants to Release 1200 Prisoners Early Due to CV

I hear ya. I've been at it about a decade.

Anyway, we aren't going to convince one another. But, I will say this as someone who has spent more time in the last ten years alone in a room with "murderers" than the average person spends with their dentist in a lifetime: it's my opinion that a vanishingly small percentage of people who have committed murder are incorrigible. Now, reasonable people can disagree concerning whether they should ever be free again, but if you want to argue that they are incapable of rehabilitation, I believe you are going to be wrong the overwhelming majority of the time.

And those are people who have killed people.

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Very few are non-violent. The instant offense for which they are currently jailed may be or seem non-violent, but you need not dig far in their history to find the violence.

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this right here.

a "non-violent" prisoner does not mean they are not violent, its a classification based on the charge for which they were convicted and serving a prison sentence...its not always straight forward either.. That being said, prison is not community college, its a very fricking dangerous place where the culture changes people, not for the better. Prison is gladiator school, not many people go in as non-violent people and come out as non violent people, just dont happen

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Shocker.

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Oh look, it's the criminal justice system equivalent of the anti-vax stay at home mom who says we should ignore the opinion of doctors because they are "biased". Delightful.

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Oh look, it's the criminal justice system equivalent of the anti-vax stay at home mom who says we should ignore the opinion of doctors because they are "biased". Delightful.

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No- none of the above. It's just we all see you proselytizing the joys of early release. How many of them are you planning on taking into your home to guarantee they tow the line? Clearly most of them are good, trustworthy people- framed by The Man- who only need a helping hand. Just like in the movies.

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Because you can count on people that have been locked up for a while to strictly adhere to stay at home and social distancing upon early release.

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Maybe that is why they are making them wear a GPS ankle monitor and remain under house arrest?

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If released, the prisoners would need to stay home, with an ankle monitor, and submit to supervision, Leblanc said. 

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Am sure all of jury's and criminal trial process was wrong.

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None.

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Why not? They have to stay someplace. Let them earn your trust outside the courtroom!

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Then again, I wouldn't let you stay at my home.

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See? In nearly every situation, common ground can be found.

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they are non-violent and in there for some bullshite drug charge, I don't see an issue. But gang members/leaders, violent offenders or repeat offenders don't need to be released
Very few are non-violent. The instant offense for which they are currently jailed may be or seem non-violent, but you need not dig far in their history to find the violence.

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Exactly correct just because they are in for a non violent offense you can bet your arse they have a past criminal rap sheet that has some violent offenses.

Fuk them let them rot in jail

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Yes but don't leave out the criminal defense attorneys push the plea deals in order to NOT go to trial.

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We push plea deals due to draconian sentencing laws, judges who start at the top of the sentencing range and have to be pulled down, jury pools that will lie to your face and tell you that they will hold the prosecution to their burden, that they won't hold it against your client if they don't testify, that they won't give any extra weight to the testimony of law enforcement versus another witness, that your client is anything but guilty until proven innocent. And up until very recently, even if two of your jurors believed your client to be innocent, the other ten could vote to convict without so much as having a discussion.

Ever had a conversation with a human being in which you tell them that you believe they are factually innocent, but that here is the testimony that will be given against them, and based on your experience with East Baton Rouge jurors, you believe the client is likely to lose the "he said she said", and based on your knowledge of the law and your experience with the particular judge, you believe that their sentence will be X if they are convicted, but that the prosecutor is offering Y plea with Z sentence, and that while I will fight for them tooth and nail at trial, this is their life, and they have to make the call that is best for them.

Because I have. Many times.

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based on your knowledge of the law and your experience with the particular judge

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Tell us some stories of practicing law in Trudy White's court room when she was a criminal judge.

You've come this far, might as well.

I will hang up and listen.