You hold them in jail during trial if they pose a threat to the public. This criminal law basics.
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yep, exactly, regardless of what some people want to believe, this guy was a non-violent felon and they are a dime a dozen, not every person will reoffend and we can’t just hold everyone in jail on the off chance they steal a car later and crash it.
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guy gets parole, guy takes the car of a girl he was meeting and gets arrested for it, DA have to assess the factors of the pros/cons of prosecuting, DA decides prosecution would be a poor path forward here instead of going after him for parole violations.
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Replying to @plscallmekimi @Sabertoothliger and
I guess the parole board deemed this guy to not be any kind of serious immediate threat just for taking some girls car that he was dating, and that the concerns w/ covid were more pressing than this low level crime, and they didn't revoke parole.
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Replying to @plscallmekimi @Sabertoothliger and
I think a lot of people unrealistically believe that the parole board and the DA especially should somehow have super powers to know that this guy who did a non-violent crime would accidentally crash a car speeding through downtown and kill two people.
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realistically nobody can tell the future, at the time this guy was arrested for stealing a car, there was nothing to imply he would accidentally kill anyone in the future. It's pretty ridiculous to expect the DA to know the exact future of every individual who enters the system.
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Replying to @plscallmekimi @Sabertoothliger and
so people saying "you have blood on your hands you could have prevented this" are out of their mind, how could the DA or anyone really, have known this would happen. even the guy who did it wasn't planning on crashing into the sidewalk, it was literally a driving accident.
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like we base holding on concrete risks a person poses, we don't just put everybody in jail for any offense, why, for who, for what, it's not like every person who steals a car is automatically gonna commit murder next lol.
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