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An Abusive Silicon Valley CEO Is Going To Jail (cbslocal.com)
He'd sold his second online advertising company for $300 million at the age of 25. Six years later he was charged with 47 felonies. And now? "A Silicon Valley millionaire entrepreneur who avoided jail time for a domestic violence conviction in 2014 -- and had his probation revoked following another domestic violence incident -- was sentenced to a year in jail Friday after losing his appeal," writes CBS SF. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Gurbaksh Chahal, founder of online advertising companies Gravity4 and RadiumOne, sobbed while asking San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracy Brown for leniency... The 36-year-old was immediately remanded into custody after Brown declined to change her ruling. Chahal must serve at least six months of the one-year sentence. He has been out of custody on $250,000 bail...
Chahal was charged with felony domestic violence in 2013 after police say he punched and kicked his girlfriend 117 times inside his San Francisco penthouse. Security camera video evidence of the attack was deemed inadmissible after a judge ruled police had obtained it without a warrant. With no video and after his girlfriend declined to cooperate with police, Chahal pleaded guilty in 2014 to two misdemeanor battery charges of domestic violence and was sentenced to three years probation.... He was accused of violating his probation in 2016 by kicking another girlfriend in the same South Beach apartment. "Tonight he's sleeping in the big house," quipped a local TV reporter, adding "that's got to feel very different."
Chahal was charged with felony domestic violence in 2013 after police say he punched and kicked his girlfriend 117 times inside his San Francisco penthouse. Security camera video evidence of the attack was deemed inadmissible after a judge ruled police had obtained it without a warrant. With no video and after his girlfriend declined to cooperate with police, Chahal pleaded guilty in 2014 to two misdemeanor battery charges of domestic violence and was sentenced to three years probation.... He was accused of violating his probation in 2016 by kicking another girlfriend in the same South Beach apartment. "Tonight he's sleeping in the big house," quipped a local TV reporter, adding "that's got to feel very different."
I doubt he’ll learn anything, but we can at least hope this might keep him from killing some future girlfriend.
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Welcome to the U.S., where a rich person going to jail is news.
"White trash nazi faggot pretends inbred red state white people don't beat their wives, Faux News at meth'o'clock"
I assure you, that man has no self control and does not "err by design". The entire description screams psychopath, narcissist and zero impulse control.
You were doing pretty good, right up to this part:
There's a problem -- and it seems few liberals have the sense or the strength of character to admit this, with their idiotic "kumbaya" attitude.
Where you seem to have gone batshit crazy. Does Faux and Friends feed you this crap? Did your mother teach it to you? I wonder. I bet you don't talk like this in front of her.
Or like this:
What kind of sick fuck wishes for people to get hurt or killed to prove his or her point? Get some help man, you're really fucked up.
That always bothered me about the American legal system. Depending on the nature and type of evidence it's possible that withholding it does not serve justice.
It serves the broader definition of "justice", even if you feel that justice isn't being done in the specific instance you're looking at.
The US constitution, and the laws that stem from that, guarantees that people are innocent until proven guilty. Our legal system also protects against search and seizure when there's not sufficient probable cause. In the original case, the woman who got kicked was unwilling to cooperate - so what do we have? Only the word of the police, who screwed up and did not follow proper procedure in the first place.
I don't want to live in a country where the word of a policeman legally counts more than my own word. I don't want to live in a country where my belongings can be seized and held without a warrant. I want my police to be held to a higher standard, because we've granted them a lot of power. Yes, that may mean the occasional scumbag walks away from a crime - but it beats the alternative. We've seen it over and over - people with too much power tend to abuse that power... even well-intentioned people.
(I realize that this whole argument somewhat ignores recent history, what with secret FISA courts and secret Executive Orders - that's a whole other can of worms)
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