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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy don't celebrities end up in jail?
Mostly, even if they DO go to jail, it's for little piddly sentences.
Meanwhile a common guy caught with a roach is in jail for life.
(The article shows just how Rush the Fathead weaseled out of his buying dope.)
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-scandals-that-prove-well-forgive-celebrities-anything/?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Celebrities&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module
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Why don't celebrities end up in jail? (Original Post)
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Dec 2012
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riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)1. it is all about
The best paid lawyers money can buy.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)2. Anybody who thinks there is any real justice...
... in our legal system is fucking insane or a tool of the 1%.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,844 posts)3. How much justice can you afford?
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)4. "In the Halls of Justice, the only place you can find the Justice is in the Halls." ~ Lenny Bruce
And the lawyer and the DA speak outside the courtroom:
"Now, if you reduce this to that we'll make a payment of what to where, then when you pocket your reward he'll slip through and avoid his just deserts."
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)5. money talks.
Here in America everything is for sale.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)7. Robert Downey Jr, Tom Sizemore and OJ Simpson disagree with your premise nt