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As is quite usual it was used for emphasis where it simply wasn't true and so certainly shouldn't be emphasised, that is what I mean by CAPSLOCK strikes.
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Sorry, I must be out of date on the rules of style. Consider me duly chastised for not following your arbitrary definition of
emphasis and
true.
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You really should check that 
Would you like the actual law from NJ which deals with the police having to search a vehicle for firearms or ammunition? |
Yes, please.
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But its the mainstream media, so it must be a liberal conspiracy right?
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According to...? I made no such statements, so I'm curious as to this angle you're pursuing. You seem to have a particular axe to grind on this point.
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Yes.
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Well, there's one thing we agree on.
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Tell those that complain about judges going soft and those that insist on tough no nonsense sentencing to put out a clear message to criminals.
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Um. Context? OJ walked in criminal court, and was fined in civil. That
wasn't a misapplication of justice? I never said the guy should walk; my feeling is that the sentence far outweighed the nature of the offense and the offender, and that some discretion should have been applied, as was the judge's right to choose.
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They could have, if his defence wasn't such utter bull.
He tried a lame attempt at convincing the court he really was in transit between States when that simply wasn't the case, if he had pleaded that it was a simple oversight perhaps the court would have made that a mitigating factor.
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Your statement that "he was really in transit... wasn't the case" is predicated on what, exactly? Most moves - especially interstate - isn't usually a simple jaunt down the road with a lorry full of your goods, even in the best of circumstance. This fellow drove well over 1500 miles to move. That's a lot of logistics to handle. I know moving an hour from my previous domicile was tedious and left my car with assorted bits of my stuff for weeks. And that was an "orderly" move in which I was moving at my pace, not a divorce case and all the associated chaos that attends such things.
You seem to have a pretty black-and-white take on all matters justice. I'm curious, though. Written laws aside, if you had an otherwise upright, just, honorable mate who was going through this exact situation, you wouldn't be at all bothered by a seven-year sentence for such a fellow? Even when he's doing time with people who killed, robbed, dealt drugs, etc.? Supervised probation or even house arrest would not have been a better choice?