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Indictment: Trump Thinks He CAN Choose Which Laws To Heed
The extraordinary indictment of the Trump Organization last Thursday prompted an extraordinarily awful response from its sole owner and its lawyer.
Trump asserted that he can pick and choose which laws he obeys. His lawyer, Alan Futerfass, says that prosecutors should have settled the Trump Organization tax fraud allegations in secret negotiations, not with criminal charges filed in public.
What s brazen is how Trump and Futerfass reveal support for two systems of justice, separate and unequal, with people like themselves getting special light treatment.
Pay close attention to the last words in this Trump Organization statement: The district attorney is bringing a criminal prosecution involving employee benefits that neither the IRS nor any other district attorney would ever think of bringing.
By Victor Omondi
Thirty six years ago, a man from Alabama received a life sentence without parole for robbing $50 from a bakery. Alvin Kennard was charged and convicted of first-degree robbery at the age of 22 years in 1983.
Now three decades later, he is 58 years old and is finally set to be freed after an order was issued for his release from Donaldson correctional facility in Bessemer.
According to reports, three decades ago, the Alabama state law mandated that every fourth offender be sentenced to life in prison. That law, the Habitual Felony Offender Act, was changed to grant judges the option of giving fourth-time offenders a possibility of parole. However, even when the change took place, the law wasn’t made retroactive. This meant that Kennard’s case couldn’t receive an automatic resentencing. Instead, it happened by chance.