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    1 year ago

    They lock people up without due process awaiting trial all the time though right?

    No. No they literally do not.

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        1 year ago

        How does that show lack of due process? And what do you define as “all the time?”

        DeAndre Davis has been waiting 651 days in a Sacramento County jail. Charged with the murder of a 21-year-old man shot during a robbery in 2019, he hasn’t been tried and he hasn’t been sentenced — and he hasn’t even had a preliminary hearing to decide if there’s enough evidence to take him to trial.

        For Davis, it’s been an agonizing ordeal made worse by the pandemic. Held without bail because of the severity of the charges

        While this is all awful and should all change, it is hardly being held “without due process”

        Things can be bad without being the worst thing possible.