The jury did not hear about all of [defendant Antwon] Pitt's prior brushes with the law, including that he had been arrested two weeks before the rape on a charges of cutting off his GPS bracelet and possessing synthetic marijuana. A D.C. magistrate judge, who was considering only the drug case but aware of the tampering allegations, denied a prosecutor's request to hold Pitt for violating the terms of his release from prison after serving a two-year sentence for robbery.
Magistrate William Nooter released Pitt back into the community despite a written warning from the Pretrial Services Agency that no release conditions could assure the defendant's appearance or the "safety to the community." He was not refitted with a GPS bracelet.
In the Stanford rape case, much of the diversionary chatter has been about how a "privileged white male" with no prior record got a big break at sentencing simply because the system is a racist, class-ridden disgrace. No mention is made in these America Stinks narratives of Mr. Pitt, a black man and nobody's version an upper-crust frat boy. But Pitt repeatedly received lenient treatment that would make the Stanford rape sentencing judge blush.
It would seem that brain-dead leniency is not as much of a racist maneuver as some on the Left would have us believe. Haughty disregard for victims, however, is spread all across the system.
What makes America more dangerous for women is not racism or classism,
but excuse-making, pro-criminal liberalism.
[Although reverse racism, Sharia-toleration, and Paglian-feminism also contribute.]
Conservatism argues, “Because sentence against an evil work
is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men
is fully set in them to do evil.”
One could look at Jose Baez or Lynne Stewart,
but for fully verbalized liberalism, hear Clarence Darrow spew,
"The reason I talk to you on the question of crime, its cause and cure,
is because I really do not in the least believe in crime....
I do not believe that people are in jail because they deserve to be.
They are in jail simply because they cannot avoid it on account
of circumstances which are entirely beyond their control and
for which they are in no way responsible."~Darrow, 1902
~Adamakis