There were many disturbing aspects to “The Diaries.” This to me is the worst. Please listen.

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Sadly, on the way to the bench the accused seem more likely to be intoning “Baby needs a new pair of shoes!” rather than insisting on their rights. Fairness and humane treatment are their rights. But oh, that could be pricey — maybe less left for us to blow on “Black Friday.” There are higher costs.

To # 6: Just because the author pled guilty doesn’t mean he believes he was guilty of an offense (such as a violent crime, for instance) that would justify the punishment he has received. As he explains, pleading guilty was part of a strategy, and not a a heart-felt confession to a crime. Hence his use of the word ‘alleged’. Until I know what it is that actually happened, I see no reason to assume that the truth of the situation is any different than he portrays. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.

Re #5: Does anyone out there have experience in a prosecutor’s office to substantiate or refute the poster’s claims in point 2?

“He was not “adjudicated” in anything. The overworked and understaffed public defenders office got him to cut a deal.”

If he cut a deal and was sent to jail, how was he not adjudicated? If he was not adjudicated guilty, he couldn’t have been sentenced.

Throughout his storytelling, he has conveniently left out what his crime was, but he does make a big point to say that “I have never committed a violent act in my life.” So anything other than a violent crime should not be punished? By your own admission you perpetrated a crime. Stop whining and pretending you are the aggrieved party.

I only hope for your family’s sake you grow up.

1. He was not “adjudicated” in anything. The overworked and understaffed public defenders office got him to cut a deal. There was no “evidence” of anything. Just two different stories and each side cutting their risk of a win/loss at trial.

2. You only “deserve to be in lockup” if you are guilty of the crime for which you are charged. Most people in pre-trial detention are overcharged by the prosecutor’s office with the worst conceivable offense based on a version of the facts that, admittedly, they will never prove. They do this so they can leverage a better deal. Long ago the office of prosecutor lost its purpose of finding the truth. Since then its been all about getting the worst possible conviction and putting another notch in your belt. Just look at all the people all over the country being exonerated after years of incarceration when the “perfect” evidence is shown to be total B.S.