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we spoke about the judge in oklahoma city that basically allowed in seventeen
year old but in the entire i'll read to uh... avoiding going to prison for
manslaughter as long as he takes i had the option of ten years probation and
ten years of church
sellout
throughout read was driving drunk at the age of seventeen and he crashed into a
tree and unfortunately i have a sixteen-year-old passenger in the
vehicle did not survive the car accident so that's why he was charged and
convicted of manslaughter however at the judge in this situation given the option
of going to church and thank you for a better option because of course church
sounds a little better than when the president
uh... so
it's interesting because the update to this story is the eighty c l_ u_ has
gotten involved in their saying that this is a unconstitutional
and that the judge did not have uh... you know the the the legal take to do
this out which which artist sumed was
r_p_s_ last
the judge was told that his life
might not be legal but anti-gay did the right thing anyway
which is amazing to me
so rank he's alive he's the executive director of the a_c_l_u_ oklahoma says
the following we'd if i was completely lightly we believe in a strong and
independent judiciary presto com uh... to this conclusion really speaks to the
level of disregarded judge norman showed toward the u_s_ constitution and the
constitution of the state oklahoma
so can when you think do you think that
judges should be able to give
those convicted of something as serious as manslaughter the option of going to
check
okay first of all really
for manslaughter you don't have to go to prison go to church and also i looked
back in the previous uh...
well before the story was updated and
already turning john baker said that he already goes to church every sunday so
what kind of punishment is that's the and obviously there are legal issues
between church and state here of course the act
and also and you know what kind of message are you trying to send like
first of all how do you know as a judge shoes the church which is the religion
replaces oklahoma so i can understand why the judge which is uh... you know
christian church
uh... but at the same time
you don't wanna force someone ins and he looked people argue while he's a really
forcing him you know that this seventeen-year-old had at charley's he
couldn't gone to prison or they could have gone to church
in that situation when she was present over chart so in an essence if the judge
is so you could go to church question in churches that you're going to feel a
little i mean there's a little bit of a power uh... imbalance there if indeed
judges really pushing for the church of course you can issue the church so i i
have allot of hold me because i miss you know they do you have to go to wednesday
bible study and thursday night choir practice
it looks like for taxes with the style number seven missus
companies on the program but uh... in rally worked
if you want to have some kind of a
some kind of a revenue is progressive way of trying to put provides the
disease seventy years and that's part of the union
openly means do it he was dropped me disturbances as needed something for
december two does get off the debt like probation financial home with uh...
maybe uh... ankle bracelet whatever at the return of the people
macon serve the community is impaneling i'd like that idea i mean there are
certainly blessed myself a medieval etc but the big serving in the committee for
mixing usery's actively doing something at the chase scenes
it is the world what he's been doing in its gonna be compartment
that's the character of the stuff that we can hear
someone say
over changing things around us lockers minded
so lenin to drama saved a life an accident had made she is with uh... our
justice system i don't like
how we incarcerate people let me turn them into hardened criminals
so i can understand wanting an alternative to that
at the end of the day what this candidate was still fit but he's not
give threat to society he's not a violent cake
decided to trade and drive in as a result is friend died
and a lot of people make that mistake and they should be punished for it of
the session because your day during the lives of others not just those in the
car but those who were just driving near you uh... so i do think he should be
punished and i do think that maybe it's a good idea to have alternatives to
prison but at the same time i don't like how up for this judge you know the
alternative is definitely church