lessthanluke Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 minute ago, baxus said: @lessthanluke If I understand this correctly, he is allowed to play. No one stopped him from signing up for the draft and trying to get the contract. And it turned out that no team would pick him up. Gotcha. Exactly how it should be for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercenaryChef Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 sorry, but the kid isn't rehabilitated. at this point he denies ever doing what he admitted to doing. i can't see any MLB team putting it on the line to draft him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ants Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 20 minutes ago, Triskele said: There was one quote in the SI article that was interesting which was a suggestion that guilty pleas do happen when people believe they're not guilty more than people would think in a tactical kind of way when people are faced with tough odds. It's like quirk of the way the justice system is set up. Let me be clear: I think he was guilty. It's just that the guilty plea itself is not the dead ringer that it appears to be. It's all the other stuff, so this is just a quibble. Agreed (and just posted in MLB thread) that he's probably not getting drafted at this point. Huh? Is that even being debated? I mean, I thought that was a the crux of half the bad outcomes for poor people, especially minorities, in the criminal system. That because of combinations of needing to stay in jobs, not being able to attend court, poor representation and other factors that heaps of (poor) people plead guilty to charges that they are innocent of or have a reasonable chance of winning. And then there are those who make tactical decisions to plead guilty. Or where they're innocent, but they can't prove it. Isn't this pretty well known and accepted???? Isn't this the crux of many debates on whether people should fight to the end, or take a compromise that they then have to plead guilty on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ants Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Hmm, I thought it was just well known fact... lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairparavel Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 https://deadspin.com/why-are-so-many-people-demanding-redemption-for-luke-he-1827145107 This article makes a few things quite clear. Sadly clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippounet Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 9 hours ago, Kairlie Minogue said: This article makes a few things quite clear. Like what? All that article does is take two specific cases and suggest sweeping generalizations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesonYao Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Part of his debt to society requires that he register as a sex offender, which he failed to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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