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By delaying court cases in this manner, Ralston was able to keep his clients free on bond for months or even years, while weakening court cases over time by letting memories fade and evidence expire. Some of Ralston's clients retained him specifically for these reasons.

There isn't the political will in Georgia to change the law and there wasn't the political will to remove him when he was alive.

Fuck the south.

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[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 72 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i like the one about how the gov of georgia barely 'won' an election, and then had the servers with all the votes immediately wiped because he was also the election commissioner... because presiding over your own election isnt a conflict of interest for some reason in georgia

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, he eliminated almost a million voters, most of whom were black, from the rolls under bullshit pretenses and then "won" by a few thousand votes against a black Democrat.

Not suspicious at all! ๐Ÿคฌ

[โ€“] Zikeji@programming.dev 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a resident that still angers me.

[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Where's Luigi at?

[โ€“] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Corruption is one of the worst offences an individual can do to society and should be life sentence minimum

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

I'd say minimum would be jail. If life is minimum, then there's only one step up. We need jail for that asshole city councilor who complained that a cop pulled him over for running a stop sign, but not life. We need life for a guy like this Georgia asshole. Not all corruption is equal, but all of it should nullify ability to hold office and all of it should result in jail.

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 3 days ago

Gotta love those good 'ole boys in souther politics and law enforcement. They sure know how to grift.