Colorado Supreme Court rules that serial child molester sentenced to 300 years can go free; doesn't have to register as a sex offender. (pizzagate)

submitted ago by duhiki

This shows how the court system uses loopholes to fuck over child sex victims.

Basically the appeals court said that the fucknut had his right to a speedy trial stepped upon, although CO law says that with Defense approved continuations (such as what happened here) means he waives his right to a speedy trial in leiu of making sure all his rights are taken care of; there was a questionnaire that the court was waiting on. Three continuances later, the supreme court decided to hang with what the appeals court went with, despite overlooking the bit in the law about maintaining defendants rights being greater than a speedy trial.

https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@mandireiserra/colorado-fails-its-children-man-sentenced-to-300-years-for-molesting-children-freed-on-technicality-cannot-be-retried-and-doesn

Nice meme at the end.

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carmencita ago

So in a Nut Shell: I am appalled that our justice system, in which a jury of the defendant's peers which the defendant helped choose, unanimously found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of sexually offending against 6 innocent victims, yet the court of appeals vacated the convictions after finding that the trial courts efforts to protect the defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial violate an arbitrary statutory right that the defendant had waived on two prior occasions. This guy must have some Big Friends in High Places. TO Top Things Off, They have no idea where this guy is. Great.

fusir ago

If he waived a right to a speedy trial then there was no jury. Nice nut shell of totally not what happened.

SoldierofLight ago

I interpreted it that he waived his right to a SPEEDY trial. Not that he waived his right to a speedy TRIAL.

In other words, there was a trial by jury but it took awhile because the defense team kept requesting delays. The delays were approved in return for the defense team agreeing that they wouldn't later claim their client's rights were denied because the trial wasn't speedy.

Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial.

carmencita ago

Yeah, I don't get it. It says he helped choose his own jury. Something Stinks.