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Garion_55

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4. think of the costs involved to the state

Reply to Garion_55 (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2015, 06:41 PM

May 2015

the cops time for the original bust. all the time it took to gather the evidence and inventory it and transport it and store it.

the time it took for the prosecutors to create a case. bring it to a judge. the costs to have a trial. cost of having a judge there. court clerks.

must have been in the hundreds of thousands just for this one single case. and even if the prosecutor won, the costs of imprisoning this guy for 10 years.

what a waste.

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