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As someone who recently quit, the realization that I smelt like that for 15 years is awful

It was probably launch angle

That sounds like something a jewelry thief would say...

Ya know, as Benjamin Franklin supposedly said," That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer" I truly believe that. The state's responsibility in any trial, no matter how minor, is to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the defendant is guilty.

I have been selected for a jury, once. The guy was being charged with a BUI, boating under the influence. While its hard to recollect all of the details, the guy was on a jet ski, doing donuts near a dock. A county sheriff stopped him and saw that he had been drinking and arrested him. There was video evidence, and they had experts testify. The defendant had clearly been drinking, although calling him drunk would be a stretch. The state never once stated what his BAC was, nor did they state what the legal limit was, only that he was "obviously" over it. One of the "expert" witnesses was a county deputy who patrols our lake. The defense asked him only a couple questions, but one was along the lines of "how difficult is it to perform the maneuvers my client was supposedly performing?" Of course the witness answered that they were not easy and he had gone through training to be able to handle a jet ski like that.

Now before I say anything else, I want to be clear I find driving/boating while drunk despicable. My mom was nearly killed by a drunk driver not long before I came along, which of course means I wouldn't be here to type this if the crash had been a little different. But in this case, the state did a terrible job of providing evidence against the defendant. As I said, in the video of his arrest, he looked like a guy that had had a few beers, but he was talking fairly normal, and cooperated with the authorities. We found him not guilty on the BUI, but guilty on the reckless driving/boating whatever it was called.

After we were released, we were allowed to come sit in and hear the sentencing, and I happily found out that the guy had no priors whatsoever. 30 some odd years old and didn't even have a speeding ticket. I was worried that maybe there was a history, but I stuck to my convictions (heh) and did not let that thought affect my judgement.

My point to that whole tirade is that no matter how minor or serious an offense is, no one should be punished without absolute irrefutable evidence that they did in fact commit a crime.

An askreddit post a couple months back on how to launder a bunch of money. Make art, make gallery, make fake people buy pieces for $50,000 each. Which was double good because real people would start buying your art and you'd make even more money.