The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

No, the scrips are documented.

Every prescription of legend drugs, especially tightly controlled ones like that, are tracked by computer. Then, there are the drugs his housekeeper scored for him.....

He's admitted he's a drug addict- are you saying he isn't?

No- I am saying that clearly there was a reason they scaled back the charges. So maybe there was less to it than thought-

[wendybeth]

One wonders why he didn't just fight this all the way to the courts, then?

Couldn't possibly be that he made a fantastic plea-bargain? He also has to pay $30,000 do defray the costs of the investigation. It must be galling to have to do so when one is so very innocent.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Couldn't possibly be that he made a fantastic plea-bargain? He also has to pay $30,000 do defray the costs of the investigation. It must be galling to have to do so when one is so very innocent.

Or you can look at it practically, being that $30K is probably less than he paid his lawyers in a month. Of course it is a great plea bargin. Nothing on his record, and 30K to him is probably like 30 cents to me. After 2.5 years, I'd just want it to be over. It is.

[wendybeth]

And that would be your spin on it, Scaeagles. I'm merely going by his past statements and his feisty character- it just seems that if this were such a travesty of justice, he'd be fighting it until he bumped into Anna Nicole at the SC. It really doesn't matter to me if he got off on these charges, as I think our drug laws are ridiculous, but I'm just amused by the responses being posted here and the fact that one day I'm branded a bleeding heart liberal, and the next I am lacking compassion.