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Are there two different justice systems?

March 6th, 2010 6 comments

One for celebrities and/or the rich?
And one for the regular folks?
What do you think of this? Thanks…

NFL’s Stallworth gets 30 days behind bars in pedestrian’s death

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth will spend 30 days in jail for a DUI manslaughter that killed a construction worker in March under terms of a plea agreement, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The Cleveland Browns’ Donte Stallworth can continue to play football, but his driver’s license is revoked for life.

Stallworth, 28, pleaded guilty in a Florida court Tuesday to killing Mario Reyes while driving under the influence of alcohol. He began serving his sentence immediately, said Terry Chavez, spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office.

Some notes if you don’t want to read the full article: The victim’s family signed off on this plea deal and also received a large sum of money from Stallworth, in lieu of filing a wrongful death suit. The DA said Stallworth’s excellent record (not even a parking ticket), his community service and the fact that the victim may be contributed to his own death because he ran in front of Stallworth’ vehicle was taken into account.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/16/florida.nfl.player.plea/index.html

There’s 4 different justice systems.

One for politicians.

The second for rich people and celebrities but there’s a lot of mitigating factors such as how rich and how big of a celebritie.

The third is for the so-called ‘common folks’ that have to mortgage their property just to put up the retainer for a lawyer.

Down on the bottom of this so-called ‘classless’ American society is the poor. They get a court appointed lawyer that advises his client to cop out on a lesser charge. Never mind that he/she is innocent. He’s probably institionalized by now that he’s looking forward to returning to second base on the prison ball team.