Quote: (01-30-2019 04:37 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
The suspect, identified as Arka Sangbarani Oroojian, turned himself in Tuesday night, LAPD said Wednesday. He was booked for assault with a deadly weapon and his bail was set at $90,000.
"assault with a deadly weapon"
This is such a BS charge and nowhere in the scope of the intention of the underlying statute. The tactic of using these outrageous charges and then forcing the defendant to do a plea deal is tyrannical.
Did he use a gun, a knife, a metal pipe? No, he did not.
If even half the people arrested on excessive charges fought their cases there would be DAs throughout the country scrambling as they are forced to go to trial and put on evidence. But it is hard to ask an individual defendant to be one who rolls the dice when he is charged with years in prison but can plead down to months or even maybe probation and anger management classes.
On the other hand I know personally of a domestic violence case (won't go into too much detail) where the girlfriend beat up on the guy, extorted him for money and some other major stuff (real felonies). Solid documentary evidence and third party disinterested eyewitness in the police report.
DA declined to press charges.
The American justice system is infected with "social justice" and "implicit bias" training and a near 99% conviction rate when they press charges (through plea deals). To get to 99% they stack charges and charge outrageous charges, almost always getting away with it because everyone makes a plea deal.
At the same time, they decline to charge cases (1) where the perpetrator is not the "right" kind of perpetrator (high SJW victim status); (2) where they don't have evidence so strong they can't ignore it; (3) when they have the chance to string up the "wrong" kind of perpetrator (like the guy in this story).