Prosecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

Could've ended really badly... I'm glad it didn't

One Love Counseling I think the only reason you were not found guilty is because of your education credentials. In these situations men are usually assumed guilty by default in most domestic abuse cases; Also African American Men have very high conviction verdicts in the legal system. Long story short, you’re a unicorn 🦄.

I lived in that area, you got REALLY lucky.

This was a great story! Thank you for sharing. I am glad everything worked out for you.

Holy shit, glad everything worked out for you.

True. Except the defense attorney doesn't hold the power a prosecutor does! You have never heard the news say "What happens next is up to the defense attorney"

Keylan Bankston TM So the thing is is that Prosecutors and defense attorneys are not under any circumstances supposed to make decisions on the guilt/innocence of defendants. That is the Jury and or Judges job. Attorneys are 100% biased because they have to be.

Again true. But a study done by the Ohio State Bar Association & Cornell University showed that statistically speaking judges accept prosecutors reccomendations 92% of the time. That number is staggering. Judges base their opinion almost soley off of what the prosecutors say. Sure the defendants have a jury to help level this out when on trial but the jury is also heavily influenced by the prosecution! Prosecutors are notorious for bending facts, cutting deals & holding behind door meetings with judges in order to secure a conviction, before a trial, by using the pressure of high risk sentences in order to secure that conviction, whether guilt is present or not. This is corruption at its finest. The problem is that prosecutors should not be looking for a high conviction rate but a high truth finding rate. Their convictions are incentivized and this is the core of the whole rotten apple

Noah Wetjen they decide the 95% of cases that don't go to trial though...

Emma With The Gs..... Wrong. You are innocent until proven guilty in this country not the other way around. Read all of my comments to broaden you views on this

Yeah I just got to it.... big oof. Wish she'd retired in 2014.

10:27

Came here to say this

Even more so now! Ugh good bye rights(I’m lgbtq+)

@@serenabean868 And bye abortion.

For real

For Fucking Real.

I was about to say, the “please don’t die” bit is something that has aged like soup. Kinda the same after 2 years but it’s concerning that it’s stayed the same over such a long time

I was just about to say that that joke is no longer funny cause its too real

Honestly, she didn’t want to step down under Obama. Everyone knew she was going to die but she didn’t want to make space.

Morgan Arc especially in sense episode was about always believing Victims. But he uses another man wrongfully convicted of sexual assault Who Admitted to it in a plea deal. .the prosecutor Kevin Steal Campaigned entire to female dominated vote on getting Cosby. And looking at what quaaludes actually do and how they were used Lower stress increased labito. And reading the deposition what was asked.was it in your mind and want to sex with the women you gave these quaaludes to. Did he really admitte to knocking anyone out to have sex with them in their sleep?😪

Must be his model-good looks.

Smartass012 bill Cosby 🙄 #rapey

I think the bastardization of our democracy is worthy of fascination.

Like the best civics teacher ever

He really is. I would love to see someone smack the fuck outta that piece of shit, putting him in a 15 year coma that he wakes up from only to have a day left to live.

"30 years in prison = delayed justice". The fk is up with that shit.

A. D. It technically is delayed justice but it shouldn't have been had his case been reviewed properly the first time.

Fluffymiyster If the guy is given back his 30 years, then that is delayed justice. This is still injustice.

Fluffymiyster dealayed Justice is a political correctness word for these DA's to say that they Fucked up but it's not their fault,. Technical terms are not GOD made, they are people made and evil people like this. Making a term doesn't make it a law .... Be aware or remain dumb

Which part of "tough on crime" you missed - especially, the "on CRIME" ?

@@piotrd.4850 They didn't miss anything. "Tough on crime" is just code for "Overpolicing poor predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods" and "meet arrest/ticketing quotas to secure funding for your police departments."

@@thecalmbeforethemaelstrom Its also political. People fear crime, especially violent crime. Politicians use that fear to get elected by claiming they're tough on crime. Once in office, having a high conviction rate lets them claim that they're accomplishing that goal. Wrongful convictions get comparatively little air time. And, as you pointed out, the people predominantly victimized by false convictions are those with the least power, those in poor and mostly non white neighborhoods. When you consider that for profit prisons are a thing, there's also perverse incentives for keeping jails full.

@@piotrd.4850 They missed none of it. The part you missed that was thoroughly demonstrated in this video was that "tough on crime" for prosecutors tends to translate to winning cases at all cost even if it means hiding evidence that'll cast doubt on the case. And it's all about mindset. If you're going into a job like a DA to be "tough on crime" rather than with an objective lens? Then well.. you're not going to be objective. And the consequence of not being objective is often being wrong.

More than that have you thought about that wrongfully imprisoning for long periods of time or even killing innocent people is terrible and essentially the same as certain things that are considered crimes like y’know KIDNAPPING and MURDER but we don’t consider it that when the system is the culprit?.. Maybe an innocent person being wrongly held against their will or killed actually is criminal enough on its own it’s just that they aren’t the criminal

Thats one of the reasons why I am glad I was born in Germany (or west-europe as a whole for that matter)

If only the penalty for them was to serve the time that they wrongfully made an innocent man do. That or, put him in a room restrained, with the wrongfully innocent man and a suite of surgical tools, and close your eyes.

@@JustsomeSteve As opposed to all the other reasons that make you ashamed? Actually, thinking on semi-recent history, that makes sense.

​@@HOTD108_ Do you want people to dig up the worst of what people did 100 years ago where you live and tell you to be ashamed for it? Because if you live in the US, the last 100 years don't look so good.

The Ace Attorney series - while originally criticizing the japanese legal system, which works a little differently, though... not that much, it seems, to be honest - brings up the silliness of this systemic problem, a lot. In the recent Spirit of Justice, it even depicts a country where defence attorneys are literally considered evil scum who defend criminals, and if the defendant is found guilty, the attorney suffers the same penalty (often execution). Bet the prosecutors mentioned in this video would just love to see a rule like that added to the already-broken system...

Excellent point. It also irritates the fuck outta me when people bad mouth defense attorneys. These people believe in 'innocent until proven guilty, yet they don't even see the hypocritical irony in not fully understanding what a defense attorney does.

That's dark considering how quickly you'd go through defenders, pretty soon you wouldn't have any knowledgeable ones left!

+BaldingClamydia - Just so. Which suited the dictatorial theocratic ruler of the country just fine; she could finger any enemy she liked and have her usually-unopposed prosecutors "prove" the person's guilt so they can then be killed or thrown in prison on her whim. A frightening possibility for any country where people place too much trust in broken systems!

Broken is more than that.

Wow... Really... John Oliver threw shade at them in this episode,... Do you have the link to the News???

John Oliver is a modern day hero...

Ohhhhh, Kenneth.

Then why was it posted on RU-vid, dumbass??

Elias Vercetti What are you talking about?

... scarely true... The worst part? There's no Federation, Star Fleet, or Enterprise Senior Crew Members that can heroically save the day...

so do you like the fallout games? because if you do I have an interesting video by hbomberguy to show you. and who knows once you're done maybe you might watch some of his other content...

He really exposes the truth behind a lot of things that are made to seem so black and white but are really complicated and nuanced with the proof to drive his points home.

@Joshua Steele god no lol. Dont say that name in the same breath as anyone on the left in your life Josh.

It's good to take in other people's perceptions and view points. I was in the same boat as you while growing up, except I did not have social media. Once in the "real world" I suddenly realised how little I knew outside the bubble I was raised in but I was open to learning. Those years were some of my fondest as I learnt to love and accept others unconditionally and to not be judgemental. In learning to love and appreciate people's unique attributes and differences, I learnt to love my own. We learn more if we are an open book.

​@@byrongordonbeukes3934 I mean, exposure to conflicting arguments should be self-moderated. No one is immune to propaganda.

At a conceptual level, it makes some sense. After all, the prosecutors' responsibility is simply to prosecute those that they feel are guilty. It's like giving a teacher a bonus for every A their students get. Without integrity, however, it turns into a bounty system.

roguishpaladin Yeah, it's exactly that, except at the end of the year the kids take a standardized test so if the math teacher acted like a gym teacher and gave the kids As just for showing up, it would show on the final and the teacher would be fired. With prosecutors this is not the case.

Because it means they're only taking cases to trial that they think they will win. A lost case for a prosecutor is a bunch of lost time and money for the taxpayers without accomplishing anything.

UltimateSpinDash Laywers who realized how much money they would make

To roguishpaladin. The big problem is the incredible unsupervised power that prosecutors have regarding monopoly of crime scene, police reports, government forensic lab reports, and other evidence, plus the incredible unsupervised power of being able to offer plea bargains plus extortion by threatening higher charges if they don't agree to plead. Historically, the solution was the grand jury, but today, the grand jury has been neutered, in large part because historically, prosecutors were generally a private person, and specifically the victim, or the attorney of the victim, and the grand jury served an important role to supervise them to prevent the plea bargain extortion shenanigan. However, when the government revoked the right of a person to press criminal charges, then all prosecutors were agents of the government, and then the "march towards efficiency" began, combined with the insidious servile authoritarian attitude of too many Americans, especially on the right, in the blind, unearned loyalty that they show the police and the government. For more information, start here: constitution.org/lrev/roots/cops.htm ARE COPS CONSTITUTIONAL? Roger Roots Seton Hall Constitutional L.J. 2001, 685

Heracross X Society in general. Trust me it's fuckitty-fucked here in the East.

Heracross X, the main questions are, why would anyone do that, and where will you find those people, and what will you do when they die or become mentally ill or become corrupt.

Heracross X, the usual reaction to this is to get a strongman daddy who promises he will fix everything and make everything better, and end up in authoritarian state.

We live in a society

Did ya fix your dog? or are you one of those people...

CAPDude44 F. He will be missed.

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RIP

CAPDude44 R.I.P.

RIP

To be honest, this seems to be a problem overwhelmingly relevant to (especially) poor blacks and latinos, as well as poor whites. It's merely another way to penalize people of color while also perpetuating the for-profit prison system. The next time a DA is running for office, see if there's any information about who or what organization(s) are funding their campaign. This is the work of being in a democracy, folks.

Derium's Pokemon ... to go to trial you MUST have a lawyer. How much money do you have? Give it all to me!... Had business partner and brother-in-law who paid tens of thousands for non violent charges.

Michael J. Oghia You can't blame democracy for what you said though. Lots of other democracies don't have any of the things you mentioned in your post.

Makkushimu fair point, though I was referencing the fact that voters need to be informed. Enabling more inclusive, informed, fair, and progressive policymaking is a completely different story, though it also requires an informed and engaged citizenry.

My cousin became a lawyer. He claims to only defend the innocent...we all know he's a monster

hey, someone else heard that!

@@natesmodelsdoodles5403 Shit too late. How many nerds are over here?

@@marcelsirer quite a few, but not enough.

@@natesmodelsdoodles5403 Yup, we need more.

*Porg

Is that even legal for him to make a deal behind your back and without your permission?

Once I said "Yes", I technically agreed to it. Had I afterwards tried to go after my lawyer, he would have been in the clear since I agreed to the deal he arranged on my behalf (despite me not being privy to the deal prior to hearing it in court). I would have needed a far better lawyer than Nic B. Kuvshinoff to argue that one (not saying much since he's a spineless coward, but you get my point). If I had not agreed to that deal, then I would have a case against him. Like many lawyers, he lives in that shady "unethical but not illegal" gray area.

R/thathappened

@@mikeharris6429 Quick google search, and it looks like it DID happen.

BTW, if someone is offering their services as a business such as a private attorney, you can talk shit about said private attorney all you want. It's like any other business. You're free to talk bad about Wal-Mart, restaurants, etc.

PitLord777 This should be in every police handbook, court room, law book, and more.

It pretty much is. No one wakes up in the morning and says "Gee, I hope I get to arrest/convict an innocent person today."

I've been looking for these exact words for a month. It was at the crux of an argument I had made, but I didn't find the very core of it. I'm glad I found this comment. Thank you.

@@jermainerace4156 The video actually highlights the incentives of attorneys doing that.

This should be quoted more often.

That is literally your job.

Amanda Armstrong I completely agree!

At the very least it should be disbarment. Not 5 days in contempt of court. Of course something on top of disbarment is best, but disbarment should be automatic. That 1 guy being the only guy who was punished even as much as staying in contempt for 5 days is just disgusting.

Exactly! If the prosecutor literally knows the accused is innocent, and has evidence of it, and still prosecutes them or pressures them into a guilty plea, that prosecutor should suffer every penalty the defendant does, along with disbarment and seizure of the majority of their assets for good measure. Hit 'em in their cushy job, *and* in the money... see how many of the bastards keep doing it then.

They should be brought up on a type of perjury charge.. A stiff fine AND jail time.

Now that's justice!

AlbanianSunN Since you said President Orange I'm hearing "Hey Apple" in Trump's voice.

Kinda hard not to talk about Trump when he is lying constantly and disgracing our country.

I'm a little potted myself...

Is that a weed? I'm calling the police!!

@@four_girls_in_search_of_awesom no, it's a crayon--

I needed to scroll WAY too far to find this.

Tbf this wouldn‘t sound completely out of place from an actual stoner

That's not true though.... in most places, judges set bond rates & judges determine whether or not you get out... prosecutors put you there in the first place.

And the only way to fix it is to understand that its broken in the first place.

You needed last week tonight to make you aware of issues?

The American system is not broken, it has been working perfectly for the ruling donor class, all these prosecutors wrongfully putting innocent people into prison is just what their donors from private prison industry want, because how else can you find such cheap labor in America that work for few cents an hour? It's all about money like everything else in America.

"The American System is not broken".. we got the first one everyone! The first living in denial. Please, PLEASE never have a Job with considerble influence on People, as I'm completely certain you'll missuse it. I really don't care what you said afterwards, the first sentence gave you kinda away. And even if its "all about money", HOW THE FUCK can you claim that it is not broken speaking of an innocent life at stake?!

The Muffin Man Did you really read his comment? He obviously meant it isn't broken in their eyes, in the eyes of those who profit.

is it there to help or harm? seems blurred when it should be clearly defined

And very expensive whether you're guilty or not.

The prosecutor Behind the Cosby Case Campaigned to the majority female vote on getting Cosby and no Innocent till proven guilty that's how the Cosby Case aways was from the start. And Plea Deals so those wrongfully convicted especially in sexual assault cases ADMITTED! TO! IT! But Reading the deposition it. What was asked was it in your mind and want to sex with you gave these quaaludes to. Now question is what did quaaludes actually do

Harsh penalties on prosecutors and reduced salaries should be the norm here.

I agree with you, its freaking nuts. But you got any legislative ideas?

And that's the Japanese judicial system!

Vladimir Puhduhduh yeah that y one got the title sir while other got home wrecked angela

Blackstone's formulation? Is that for "beyond all reasonable doubt"

@MR. Bucket I'd disagree strongly to that ^^ Two men accused of murder, Peter is innocent but convicted guilty, Brian is guilty but free of charges. Both situations are injustices potentially leading to more harm. Peter's family's lives are shattered, some may act violently on emotional response to what they know to be unjust, amongst other potential consequences (Oh he ran a business ? job loss for everyone, ...etc.) Also, Brian is free to act badly again, just with a little more experience about how not to get caught/prosecuted, experience which he might share, etc. And arithmetics are irrlevant here. "10 guilty men" has no meaning since the amounts of harm and degrees of guilt can and do vary wildly between any of them. Blackstone sounds more like an emo teen poet than like a rational judge here if I may...

@ toshir0m1 Wow! The core of your first argument relies on not understanding math and the second part is you affirming that the obvious counterargument is irrelevant and applying an ad-hominem. You seem to have been very wrong on the internet before.

I don't think you can quantize it. Put another way, would you willingly spend the rest of your life in prison if it meant there was also a murderer in prison who would otherwise have gone uncaught? I don't think you can assume every violent crime was committed by a serial killer...... that's just silly.

Oisin Lynch Absolutely. My co-workers keep some macabre souvenirs of murder trials, like dental impressions of a murderers teeth with a rose clenched between them, but not a celebration of executions! Yeesh.

True, serial killers often keep trophies from their murders and some try to out do another serial killer's body count.

Sociopaths take pride in twisting the rules to do very evil things and get away with it. Could you imagine how much joy a sociopath would get out of being a prosecutor?

There are probably a good number that already are.

It's literally legal murder... Oh god, is that a super dark pun? Inappropriate.

If every prosecutor was like Miles Edgeworth, the world would be a better place.

Which dog? Though I can tell you it was not the furry one.

I really like how he does that too. I also like how, even when he does cover a more trendy topic, he tends to approach the topic in a different way from others - focusing on an aspect of the topic that is less talked about and discussed.

She needs someone to explain to her that no, her job isn´t to prosecute those she thinks she can get convicted, but those for whom there is a reasonable suspicion that they have actually committed a crime. She SHOULD take guilt and innocence into account. The number of convictions don´t matter. The important thing is not for her to look tough and/or successful. The important thing is to lock up guilty people and let innocent people be free. You know, kind of how it is in a civilized society?

Oliver is HALF-BAKING IT IN THESE VIDEOS. PROSECUTORS are ALL criminals, as are ALL judges, literally. The entire system is illegally rigged in EVERY way (including fake "defense" attorneys), in violation of Due Process etc. (HELL, the Supreme Court constantly says HALF the court is LAWLESS CRIMINALS... while the OTHER half says the same thing. They are unanimous that half the court doesn't know THE LAW and are moron liar crooks.) (Chief Judge Roberts recently said the SUPREME COURT was a LAWLESS body [which it is, on ten different levels, like massive conflicts of interest], as they allowed the illegal MUSLIM BAN to continue. Roberts said the court made a CLEARLY illegal decision back in 1944 when they backed up our nazism against japanese, via internment camps. Roberts OVERTURNED the Supreme Court decision from then (!!!) and he said they CLEARLY broke the law. GAME OVER. No one can dispute the court is NOT LAWFUL. it's a political FRAUD on the public, and totally unlawful.)

Well, a prosecutor's job is to get a conviction. They should try to do that since that's their job, while the defense lawyer does their job and does their best to defend their client. Then the judge and jury should do their job to determine guilt based on the evidence presented by both sides. If a prosecutor believes that the defendant _was_ actually not guilty, nothing is stopping them from working with law enforcement and other lawyers (if necessary) to overturn the conviction afterwards.

+Essess Nine, in fact, the prosecutor's job is to defend the society. When they decide to charge a guilty person and do not get a conviction, at least they did their job. If they charge an innocent person, they are not defending society, since the real guilty is free, part of society, that has nothing to do with the case, is being prosecuted, and the whole expensive system is being used with no reason.

Essess Nine totally wrong, thry are NOT supposed to push wrongful prosecutions, and to claim they could help overturn it afterwards makes no sense at all, you don't cause a horrible immoral verdict on purpose so thst you can possibly overturn it later

Franziska von Karma, Godot and one other person. I salute you.

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They do have the buzz though

I think I’d rather get mauled by Taka or have Godot huck his coffee at my face… Can’t decide when it comes to the whip though.

Prosecutor fighting with the judge? The judges are usually fully supportive of nearly anything the prosecutors request.

@@edinfific2576 oh no, you should have seen it this guy was agressive. i was lucky to get a judge that understood the "politics" of the courtroom and was able to hold the Prosecutor accountable for his crap. the Prosecutor didnt like it, and they got into some pretty intense arguments

@@alexcook2206 That's very rare that a prosecutor is held accountable at any level for anything. You were very lucky to have had a judge and an attorney like that. The prosecutor sounds like nearly all of them, conviction is the most, or the only, important thing, everything else is secondary, including the law (except where it can be used against the defendant to the fullest extent imaginable), the rules and regulations.

Indeed

Delovely 1 This is why almost all the problems he points out persist. Most people don't know about this because they've never been criminally charged before. The better question is why would they know along with the 50 other obscure things John Oliver has shed light on?

And it’s even more scare when your realize these are problems that are very very hard to solve unless things change which they rarely do.

God, ikr?

Can we petition to get the show to change its name to “An Enormous Problem You Didn’t Even Know Existed”? Because that fits what this show is about better

And being wrongfully impriosned dosnt exactly give you +100 lawfull citizen it wouldnt be unimaginable for people to then bad

@@coldfusionstormgaming1808 prison is a school for fledgling criminals.

If only the penalty for them was to serve the time that they wrongfully made an innocent man do. That or, put him in a room restrained, with the wrongfully innocent man and a suite of surgical tools, and close your eyes.

With the wrong people behind bars, railroaded by a system that wants a quick and easy conviction.

is the the we could not get the right person so we had to get somebody argument?

There's a guy in Ohio who was convicted of being a serial rapist and spent 20 years in prison. It's a long, awful story of people going out of their way to ruin his life. They eventually figured out who the real rapist was, but the statute of limitations was up, so he has never been charged with anything and just gets to go about his life.

Kayli Thomson ala the west Memphis three

nickel odeon there was a man on the Stern show a few years ago that had been wrongfully imprisoned for decades. During his stint in prison he became the warden's helper. He had access to a vehicle...which he decided to steal to go see his wife. Long story short...it was proven he did not commit the original crime, but they wanted to charge him with theft. They decided to drop charges....if he wouldn't sue the state for wrongfully convicting him. Crazy.

Um........so where's *consumer?* The channel that would post clips from LWT that aren't on the official RU-vid channel? Did he get blocked or banned? I can't even find _any_ old clips...let alone the channel itself. I'm sure there's other LWT fans who know the channel I'm referring to. Anyone know what's up?

Lily Darkmoore ; DON'T FORGET HE IS READING A PREPARE📚SCRIPT.!!!.🎃.

avedic That channel was violating LWTs copyright and was probably nuked. I'm suprised they got away with it for so long.

He is owned by HBO man, he brings up some issue's but he is still a corporate stueg. He won't bring up trump arming neo Nazi's in Ukraine, or Trump continuesly occupying Syrian territory, or the fact Israel has way more sway than Putin. "But sure Trump's Putin's puppet, and Russia was totally wrong for showing apperantly illegal investigative reporting." Sarcasm. However I do believe Trump and Russia have shady business deal's together, both a bunch of mobsters and Russian officials went to one of Trump's hotel's over in Guatemala I think it was back in the 1990's. That's not even mentioning his connections to the mafia from his father's real estate business back in the 70's, that he met because Trump's father kept him from Vietnam. Then in the 1980s Trump went to his father to ask for an investment of 10s of million dollar's which went to known associates of mob bosses, it's believed he helped disrupt workers Union's.

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SanchoSanto and go live on social media platforms, so nothing can be edited out by the wrong hands.

YES! It's time.

Where does _"this is extremely dangerous to our democracy"_ fit in that comparison?

Seeing that some countries would fund way more on military rather than healthcare and hospitals, I won't be surprised if this really concludes that we, the human species, really just enjoy the destruction of human lives instead of saving them.

And I don't buy for one minute that's not by design.

you forgot the part about absoluely, worse than fast food, abysmal food.

I guess it's to insure that prosecutors won't back off a case only because they have to fear being wrong and honestly, I absolutely agree to that part, although the truly powerful culprits will have other ways of threatening their prosecutor most likely. The way the system should work is by having a prosecutor ready to find every misconduct, but also a defender able to do their best defending. I think the worst part about your system is that one side has full control over the evidences brought to court as Oliver said. That's a point where prosecutors should face severe sentences for withholding evidence. Otherwise it could help not having them prepare the evidence as they like to begin with.

PViP simple solution - prosecution and defense get access to evidence at exactly the same time - otherwise the scales of justice are atomatically tilted to one side or the other... give both sides a level playing field or true justice is impossible to achieve

PViP well he didnt say punish them for beeing wrong. he said knowingly withholding evidence in order to convict someone should be a serious crime like attempted murder.

Aint that the truth :D

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Bernadette Teaches Music ... AGREE

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Your weekly source of Crippling Undiagnosed Depression -

So every Sunday ?

Lee Eel Same!

Me too!

It should be criminalized

Heba Khaled it is, except the accused serves the sentence for the crimes of the prosecutor.

Idea: let’s stop doing that & make prisons rehabilitive

What I find more outrageous is the lack of accountability. Our system isn't perfect and wrongful convictions will happen, even when everyone is acting in good faith. However, when people are not only failing to act in good faith, but are being rewarded for their misconduct, that's just wrong. I'm not sure its possible to remove the rewards from the system because fear of crime will keep on fueling demand for "tough on crime" policies. However, a robust system of accountability could increase both penalties for misconduct and oversight (increasing the odds of getting caught), to make those rewards less appealing.

It’s happened to me and about to again! I’M PETRIFIED!

They each won around $1 mil for each year they served. The younger 4 got $6-7 mil each and the older one got like $13 mil

Also worth noting, Trump took out a full page ad in the NYT calling for their execution even after DNA evidence had proven them to be not guilty.

@@AC-gw4qu What a fucking disgrace this orange is for a country praising itself so much all the fucking time.

It's worth noting that I believe none of them where white.

@@Angry5704 Yes, I believe they were all Black & Latino. There were heavy racial implications with this case

SsnakeBite ... wow. well Made point. Brilliant. add a joke at the beginning, and a joke at the end of about something else obscene or ridiculous about Florida, and this could have been written for this show.

I mean the im reasonably sure he wants to Attack me so i defended myself Bit is valid. That's one of the Main basis of self defense trials Not just in america but also in Germany

Better than the prosecutors of Khura'in.

Where the hell is "Karma"?

Carrie Reed Legal Eagle would say otherwise

Good news, I just updated the autopsy

@@vaevictus4637 Manfred on Karma is a character from the Video game series Ace Attorney, where you typically play as a Defense Attorney

Sergey Chernov I'll read it......

Pokerface maybe Kevin Steal he Campaigned entirely to female dominated majority vote on getting Cosby

Username checks out.

Pokerface Really? What's smart about his assery?

Pokerface 90% accurate?! It's a guess,that's 90% accurate,probably..

That electric chair thingy is the equivalent of a serial killer trophy. That racist scumbag definitely took great join in sending people to death row.

Probably because you were top 15%

jesus. in canada, there is a continuing obligation to disclose everything relevant.

Carrie Herman that requirement exists in the US too, but it’s not uncommon for prosecutors to... “forget” about it

Chances are you just bombed the interview. Also you probably went to a lower tier school in Miami and you werent on Law Review nor going to be Clerking. All those are strikes agaisnt you.

​@@Bruss813 I'd bet against that. DAs don't want prosecutors that might hurt their electability - and losing cases because you didn't cheat does just that.

no i think its still very terrifying maybe the most terrifying thing i know about america

Daniel' It is not hard for me! We have many problems that need fixing in this country, yet the Baby in the WH was constant attention. I hope the media finally wakes up and stops covering him constantly, especially repeating the same points!

Well if they haven’t experienced it they should play the Ace Attorney games

Simply try to fight a traffic ticket sometime. That's all it takes.

It is. It's just that Manfred Von Karma is so extreme that it's easy to assume that he's part of the fantasy.

Yey Ace attorney fans

Japan's actually worse than America in this regard. Prosecutors win literally 99% of the time in Japan, as opposed to the 95% guilty pleas here.

I WAS JUST THINKING THIS! Now that game as social commentary makes sense!

"Wrong! The only thing you must do here is slam down your gavel and find the defendant guilty!"

Josh Andersen that’s so horrible.

They think they're wrecking the lives of the "bad guys" - it's all they perceive the person as. It's the simplistic nature of society - people are slotted as "good guys" or "bad guys".

True enough. "Innocent until proven guilty," is the ideal, but when their in the mode of seeing everyone and a scoff-law ne'er-do-well, for enough time, all they see is, "bad guys." My brother's a public defender. I don't know how he does it.

I am in no way trying to defend them but please take into account that they are making decisions that affect the lives of people every single day. It's a job with a tremendous amount of responsibility. One way to counter the inherent stress that comes with the position is humour, even if in bad taste. Think of surgeons as another example: they usually have the sickest dark humour there is and that is just a way for them to balance out the weight they carry on their shoulders. It's a self-defense mechanism. I am sure we all have made decisions in our lives that had serious ramifications and even many years later we still ponder whether or not we have made the right call at the time. Now imagine if you had to make such decisions on a daily basis. If you were to contemplate them all the time you would end up a nervous wreck in a few years.

I know. I don't blame them. I was a Navy medic for a few years. One of the things they taught us, drilled into us, was, to never apply a half-tourniquet. Navy corpsmen are compassionate, by nature. Save someone pain. What they did to me, they didn't know. I don't blame them for their lack of training, I don't blame anyone. They attached and ankle bracelet to me, it broke down about once a month, and they refit it to the indentation it had made, not the actual size. It cinched things off right where most major nerves and tendons come and go to a complex part of the body. I hadn't driven in months, because of chronic pain, the night I was pulled over, it was in the heart of winter, when the pain was at its fullest, and I was only going three blocks. "He's a threat to society." Was what the prosecutors said. I didn't have any prior record. I was treating my pain in the only way I'd found to work. Not a long-term solution, but kept me from falling into another depression episode. (not a mood, by the way. It's a physical state where you're physically incapable of having any will to live.) I didn't expect any special treatment, I didn't mention I was a war vet, because that shouldn't matter. I've been trying to fix it, been to the doctor, was referred to a specialist. I didn't say all of this, because I was trusting them when they said, "We're good at law enforcement." The defense kept trying to assure me, "This isn't your fault." They put me in the same classification as people who'd dealt drugs, robbed houses and cars, when I was licking my wounds after having taken in a homeless woman. My grandfather was a law professor at Stanford, I was a farmer, eagle scout, missionary, war vet, and professional artist and musician by the time I was 25. And they put me on an Excel sheet. My probation officer's been nice, judge Lambo's been nice. Mandatory minimums, another of John Oliver's peeve broadcasts, can shed some more light on it. The judge just all but threw his hands in the air, "This is the best I can do for you." I've been working with them, as best I can. I understand. I swore an oath to protect this country, I took that to mean even from myself, should I become broken. Gallows humor is fine. I know it, I miss the banter with my colleagues. Trained with Navy S.E.A.L's, was a member of Company 001, first Gulf War. I'm trying to deal with it as it comes, and hope they understand. I've seen what they've had to deal with. It's no disrespect. Not many have been through what I have, but some have.

Same lol

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Rickrollingman yep..

tristonanan stop leaving us in suspense! Who?

Holy shit, it's the guy that ran against that dog! Apparently, voters of my county at the time were cowards and didn't want to elect a dog.

tristonanan the cowards!

tristonanan That's ruff.

I would choose a dog

Vishnu Why did they remove the channel? Now how will we watch the shorter segments?🤦🤦🤦

What happened?!

A tragedy

When you google it, a reddit post about it is the first result right now. Some company in India filed copyright claims against a bunch of videos on the channel at once and the channel was suspended. The owner of the channel doesn't want to deal with the hassle of fighting back, despite the fact that HBO had been aware of the channel for years and they had agreed not to file claims as long the videos were kept under 5 minutes and not monetized. It sounds like consumer wanted a break from uploading clips every week anyway, so sadly this is probably how it ends.

Sappharad thanks for the info. I was just wondering where his clips were at. Too bad... I hope he makes it back.

We've gotten to a point in society where someone with a homer simpson avatar on a glorified cat video delivery service understands justice better than those who designed the system.

Satellite Breakfast to be honest, when I first started reading your comment I thought, "oh no here comes the insult"… But thank you. It is a sad state of affairs.

Madger Bole it's terrifying that the government can literally throw you on death row and have you killed despite not actually having committed a crime.

Actually, the best way to do it is to only sentence someone to death for being caught on video killing or raping someone.

Another reason why our Constitution is outdated. We need a 21st century constitution that deals with issues like this a lot better.

That‘s exactly what all Western states did, except one.

Madger Bole Exactly this. I don't think that the death penalty is never unwarranted. I just have no faith in our system to fairly or accurately adjudicate it.

Dr. Disaster what you describe is already illegal

Withholding evidance is illegal, also known as obstruction of justice. There is a reason the basic assumption of the justice system is "not guilty until proven guilty".

Unfortunately, such a system would violate the 'cruel and unusual punishments' clause. We don't need vengeance, we just need them to stop being incentivized to do it!

roguishpaladin: when jailing innocent people for decades or sending them to death row is not "cruel and unusual punishment" in your book you might need a different point of view i.e. from behind bars.

I support it

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he does a great job of spreading useful knowledge on important topics... I'd be honored if some fellow John Oliver fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal cover (live, no autotune) of PRAYING FOR TIME on my channel in tribute to the great GEORGE MICHAEL. The man hasn't gotten his due for all the contributions he made to modern music as a vocalist, songwriter and producer. But eventually he will get his due. THANK YOU GEORGE. WE MISS YOU.

Came to the comments after I saw that

Ugh :/

This is the exact reason why I oppose the death penalty. It boggles the mind to imagine, “small government” conservatives, who don’t really seem to trust the state, are okay with the state having the authority to end your life.

@@JustinMoralesTheComposer Exactly! So-called "small government" conservatives are usually the first people to push for the death penalty and I really just straight up do not understand the mental gymnastics that are required to make that make ANY sense at all.

@@godonlyknows13 I am a small government man and I am against the death penalty.

@@josephcoolest1839 That makes logical sense to me lol. I'm not personally what one would usually consider "small government" but at least being small government and anti-death penalty tracks logically in my mind.

@@godonlyknows13 yeah you cannot support removing much of the governments power yet allow them the power to kill.

Pffffffft. Come talk to me when you've spent 7 court dates, $2,500+, and a (current) total of *four and half years* awaiting the resolution of a $120 ticket. These fuggers are trying to SLAPP me into submission! The court has EASILY spent more than me on it. There's no possible way they will ever come out ahead, yet they keep going, and keep delaying. I guess that's what happens when your business has absolutely no solvency requirements... P.S.: first line was just a figure of speech...not trying to detract from your situation. 👍