Should I Feel Guilty?

[Berzerker]

I thought this guy was funding terrorists so I pressured the gov't to prosecute him. He was kept in jail for 3+ years awaiting trial and was acquitted of about half the charges with the jury undecided but leaning toward acquittal on the other charges. Faced with a 2nd trial and more time in jail, the guy agreed to confess to 1 felony and be deported.

Should I feel guilty?

[Imran Siddiqui]

...

I'm trying to decide who this actually applies to.

[Barnabas]

Is this real?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Lord knows.

Maybe Berz is drinking again

[monolith94]

Do you think he was guilty?

[Dinner]

I'm guilty of clicking on this thread. I won't do it again.

[Berzerker]

dont know if he was guilty, I was just suspicious

yes you will...

[Pekka]

Yes.

[Spiffor]

Re: Should I Feel Guilty?

Originally posted by Berzerker
He was kept in jail for 3+ years awaiting trial

And this, my friends, is the suck.

Jailtime without trial is a terrible thing, since any innocent can be put in jail :

[MarkG]

when in doubt, always feel guilty. you'll feel better when others tell you later not to feel guilty

[Edan]

If the guy confesses to a felony, doesn't that make him guilty?

And I don't see why you would feel guilty, unless you intentionally falsified statements to the police or something.

[Pekka]

Edan, who knows what happened, or what the felony was. Might as well be some BS charge to get off of the fact that he was kept their 3 years. Just to make something. This we can not know, but smells like kaka to me (the felony).

If the concern was genuine, then sure, that's cool. If there was some evidence to back up that concern. If it was just a hunch, then definitely not cool. This be the modern day witch hunt.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Pekka
Edan, who knows what happened, or what the felony was. Might as well be some BS charge to get off of the fact that he was kept their 3 years. Just to make something. This we can not know, but smells like kaka to me (the felony).

If it was a BS charge, maybe he shouldn't have confessed to it. As it is, I'm not going to assume that a guy that confesses to a crime is innocent.

[Pekka]

You can assume all you want. If you're 3 years in a jail, suspected of terrorism, in the US none of the less.. crazier things have happened. What I gathered is that he will be deported from those charges. Seems to me like a deal. But still, one-sided one.

Without knowing the case of course.

This is the way justice systems around the world tries to recover from their own f ups.

[Pekka]

But before judging anyone, it might have been the right thing to do, none of the less. I guess we will never know that. If the reason for suspecting were credible, it makes you think. What if my eyes see is true? What if this person is involved in terrorism? And it's not exactly Berz's fault that the justice system kept in locked up 3 years, so you can't put that on him.

It's a double edged sword. LIke I said, it might have been the right thing to do.