• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Legal defense “oh, sorry kid, the cost is $300,001. Guess you gotta do what the government decides…”

    Meanwhile that lawyer is taking a bribe from the government to not represent Luigi.

    For the record, I’m not in favor of this. I just know how these things go. Government thinks it’s above the people. Just ask Martin Luther King. Oh wait, you can’t. And not from old age either, as I realize that by 2025 it would have been plausible to die of old age. No, you couldn’t ask him in 1964.

    • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
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      9 hours ago

      Meanwhile that lawyer is taking a bribe from the government to not represent Luigi.

      Considering that that’s something that explicitly results in disbarment, and that an incompetent or deliberately poor legal defense is grounds for a new trial, I highly doubt that this would occur.

      There are ways around these consequences, of course, but there would be very few defense attorneys willing to risk their career to facilitate a win for the government. I suppose blackmail isn’t out of the question, if they want to go down that road, but that’s highly speculative and conspiratorial.

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        17 hours ago

        It’s a bit rambled, but I suspect they’re talking more about out the issues with the legal system and its control by the ruling class rather than any specific mentioned in the article.