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In reply to the discussion: Road Rage Trial Update [View all]malthaussen
(17,230 posts)36. I could understand the defense attorney harping on the pot...
... if there were a jury to influence, but there is only a judge, and one would think he had already made up his mind about the Evil Weed. But I guess counsel isn't allowed to get up there and say "I got nothin'." What a nice commentary on our society that the victim "sometimes" smoked pot for pain relief, and that's terrible, while the fact that the thug was drunk is no big deal.
The attitude you describe reminds me of the guy in Florida a couple of years ago who shot and killed his next door neighbor. When he was arrested, he said "What's the big deal? I only killed a nigger!" (note to jury: that is a direct quote) He apparently had no concept that such an act was a bad idea.
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