Sheriff's captain arrested for distributing child porn gets no jail time

[Helena]

https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/s...s-no-jail-time

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — A sheriff's captain who was originally charged with distributing child pornography has pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, receiving no jail time in turn.

[stjames1_53]

https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/s...s-no-jail-time

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — A sheriff's captain who was originally charged with distributing child pornography has pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, receiving no jail time in turn.

1. How many did he put behind bars for what he did

and
2. How many of them caught the same break he did

[Helena]

This article from 1988 sums up perfectly how I feel about plea bargaining and deals. Anyone who calls it justice and means it is a scary and wholly unethical person.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.90a23b81c26f

Plea bargaining is one of the great abominations of the American criminal justice system.
In fact, it is a double abomination, because it lets people guilty of egregious crimes get off with minor punishment and it pressures innocent people to plead guilty to crimes they never committed out of fear that they will get harsh punishment if they fight for their rights.
But this outrage called plea bargaining survives because most prosecutors don't want to work too hard, and judges don't want their dockets clogged with cases that can be disposed of in out-of-court deals.

[Peter1469]

Plea bargains happen for many reasons, not all bad.