Prosecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ouch, all the “please don’t die” jokes about RBG hurt now.

Stories like these make me sick. That guy who just dismissed a guy who lost 30 years of his life while under the fear that he would be executed is a real piece of shit.

Watching this after RBG has died, it still feels unreal. "Please don't die." The fact that our system depends on one person is terrible.

Those "tough on crime"-folks should remember: Every wrong conviction means one more criminal free to continue their crimes. Getting it right is more important than getting the win.

A prosecutor once told me. "My job is to get a conviction by any means necessary and let the truth fall where it may" That is the problem with this system

It pisses me off that defense attorneys often get shit for defending "the bad guys", while prosecutors get away with putting away innocent people. The system is so broken.

I live in a conservative house hold and last week tonight is a large part of me formimg my own thoughts and opinions about politics and the general world.

“Prosecutors will decide”... sounded awfully like “resistance is futile” Borg style 😂

RIP to the Youtube channel: consumer, who for 4 years has been the steady rock that gave us the side bits from Last Week Tonight. AT&T shut him down today, and the internet is a worse place without him.

AT&T was going to cancel this show, but they couldn't get the call through.

If you lead to someone being wrongfully sentenced to 25 years prison, in Germany it is seen as a deprivation of liberty as if you locked him up yourself and you are charged for that.

"Oh I'm totally a weeder! I'm into all the weeds! I'm stoning right now! that's how potted I am!" I almost shit myself😂😂😂

Who thought a system that rewards Prosecutors for their conviction ratio was a good idea? The moment you push for a conviction quota, it stops being about justice.

I swear John Oliver can, and does, make any topic fascinating.

I got screwed by this system in college. I took a $1,000 fine, not realizing that the false conviction would screw me in later life. I got a great job out of college (Cornell is awesome for getting a job, FYI), and I received another amazing job post MBA. What I did not realize was that background checks would become universal. I had over a dozen job offers rescinded after getting laid off in the financial crisis (laid off mid-2009, started real full time job in spring 2011). Since then I have have well over a dozen job offers rescinded, plus jobs that seemed like slam dunks that magically no where after I filled out full paperwork including the authorization of background checks. One of my worst was from Wipro (an Indian outsourcing firm trying to get into management/financial consulting (my world)). My first IT contact and core contact, plus my hiring manager signed off on my hire, but corporate HR killed my hire two days before my start date, after I had confirmed everything was okay, moved, and paid for half of this with credit cards! Other firms I would like to shame: CNA Insurance, Magnetar, Wells Fargo, the Chicago Fed (not the New York Fed who gave me an offer, but the Chicago Fed whose response to my reference to the New York Fed, was to have a stereotypically ditzy HR individual tell me that the problem was not that they could not hire me, as their functional employees requested, but they chose to block the hire of a potentially violent candidate. I cannot explain how not violent I am, but those I tell this story to usually laugh uncontrollably (I am a stereotypical gentle giant, who has only lost it when racist savages threatened my non-white ex-wife, or when racists threaten women or children). Our legal system is out of control, with child-rapers getting minimal sentences while poor black men selling weed getting huge sentences for not reason. Cities should stop bothering with drugs and let the DEA sort that out. They should focus on sex crimes, violent crimes, and theft targeting homeowners in order to both make our cities better amd imprison the bad guys while leaving poor kids with no other options alone. No one is forcing morons to use drugs. Let’s focus on the real bad guys (rapists, child molesters, murderers, thieves,...), while avoiding poor kids with few options.

That "prosecutors will decide" sound clip sounds like the Borg.

I am an African American man who has a child from a girl I dated in college. I moved to the Tampa area from Atlanta to be with my son and help raise him. One day after visitation with him, me and my now wife were dropping him off to his mother when the mother told me to move out of the doorway so that she could go tell my now wife that she is pregnant with my second child (a lie). I stood in the doorway and told her to not do this. Long story short, later that night (3 hours later) she called the police and said I assaulted her by standing in front of the open door. I have never assaulted anyone ever and I am now a licensed psychotherapist and help people with their emotional and behavioral problems. I had to go to court and Glenn Beck's wife was the prosecutor. She threatened me with a year in prison if I went to trial. I had a public defender. A very smart and assertive African American woman. The jury of "my peers" was 6 white men and women. I was found unanimously not guilty. A guilty verdict would had precluded me from ever being a therapist again and had me spend a year in prison. I have NEVER been convicted of anything other than driving violations and am SO thankful I took it to trial and that my public defender was well prepared.

Came here for some good jokes. Leaving here terrified of ever being on trial.

Things like this are why I want to become a lawyer. I might get shamed out of every firm I work in, but we need people who want to reform the system.

After learning the truth about the Central Park Five, I was so mad. Those teens lost everything because the system ignored the actual perpetrator. I watched the documentary for school.