Maryville rape case - special prosecutor named

Sure. As long as you ignore the facts that driving while intoxicated was treated completely differently back then, and that rape isn't any way comparable to having a willing woman in your car with you.

And rape was treated pretty differently back then depending on the circumstances too. But most people somehow managed not to get hammered and violate women, and most people managed to not get hammered and wind up getting them dead because they were behind the wheel too. But sure. Hackery. Why not?
 
In defense of the politician mentioned, I cannot remember which article it was said in, but in one of them he was asked about it by some reporter and he made it clear he's stayed away from this as much as possible given he's family because he didn't want to be interfere.
 
In defense of the politician mentioned, I cannot remember which article it was said in, but in one of them he was asked about it by some reporter and he made it clear he's stayed away from this as much as possible given he's family because he didn't want to be interfere.
Yeah, we don't actually know if there has been any outside political interference yet. It could be as simple as a small-town prosecutor covering a friend's son.
 
Or just the tacit hope that favor would be curried later... But of course any career machiavellian (I just heard this term and had to try it out :D) would by nature and necessity claim he kept total distance. In fact for his own career might have just done that.

While still knowing that if the prosecutors drop the case, he can pay them back later, knowing that they know he knows that.
 
And rape was treated pretty differently back then depending on the circumstances too. But most people somehow managed not to get hammered and violate women, and most people managed to not get hammered and wind up getting them dead because they were behind the wheel too. But sure. Hackery. Why not?
I'm not claiming that only Republican politicians have gotten breaks for being powerful and influential. I'm claiming that it seems to be more common with "law and order" advocates than with others. That it is far more hypocritical when they do it due to their draconian attitudes towards criminal activity from others.
 
I agree that it's more hypocritical when the powerful do something that they themselves have been draconian about punishing. I probably wouldn't have cared at all about Spitzer if it hadn't been, you know, Spitzer.
 
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