San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case

snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia follows up on the Terry Childs sentencing, stating that the City of San Francisco is as much at fault in this case as Childs is. 'The way that the San Francisco IT department has been run is nothing short of abysmal, and that has been pointed out time and again by anyone paying attention to this case,' Venezia writes. 'Plenty of dirty laundry was aired out in court as well, yet through it all, the city has had a full-court press on Childs, and being both the plaintiff and the prosecution it spared no expense to drill Childs into the ground.' Worse, perhaps, is the disproportion of the sentence, when compared with recent convictions for intended malfeasance on the part of several notable rogue IT admins."

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Re:And people ask about my new sliver hat

[russotto]

It seems that we have moved from a legal system that would prefer letting a guilty man go free rather than imprisoning an innocent to one where we would gladly imprison 10 people, despite 9 of them being innocent to catch a single guilty.

No, we've moved to a legal system which would gladly imprison 10 innocents, despite no crime having been committed at all.