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[greybeta]

Okay, I've been on this class-study-work-sleep schedule, so I missed out on the Georgia Attorney General doing something controversial. Like, he filed an appeal on a judge reducing a sentence or something crazy like that. Without having heard of the specifics of the case, I thought the Attorney General was just doing his job. Could someone please explain to me why what he did was so heinous?

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[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Let me play devil's advocate for a second. The law is the law. Only the governor has the power to pardon, correct? So isn't the Attorney General preserving the system of checks and balances here?

[khiron1416.livejournal.com]

Well, yes.
But one might also argue that justice would be better served by a different outcome. And, arguably the attorney-general may have some responsibility in that area.
Also, the young man, even if pardoned, still is a sex offender and must be on that august registry his whole life. There were 5 other guys who did the same thing at that party but pled guilty to a lesser charge and they are now irrevocably sex offenders. Boy-in-jail pled not guilty to avoid the sex-offender part and got the book thrown at him. That's where the injustice comes in.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. So are people just mad over the fact that the Attorney General is a complete @$$hole?