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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
Storel:
Technically, isn't someone a felon as soon as they commit a felony, even if they're never convicted or even arrested for it? I believe that's why the phrase "convicted felon" exists, to distinguish those felons who have been convicted from those who haven't.
Pennepasta:
--- Quote from: Storel on 31 May 2018, 13:48 ---Technically, isn't someone a felon as soon as they commit a felony, even if they're never convicted or even arrested for it? I believe that's why the phrase "convicted felon" exists, to distinguish those felons who have been convicted from those who haven't.
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Google claims it's convicted only. I'd guess that term exists to differentiate from suspected or accused felons, which I presume are also terms? I don't really know. It's not a term that's really used here, so...
Is it cold in here?:
Officer Basilisk said the fight club was only just barely illegal, so even with conspiracy charges it might not have risen to a felony level.
On the other hand there were the bigger fish Roko was after. She hinted they were doing some seriously bad things. Get involved with someone like that in any capacity and the law can cause you so much trouble that you'll plead guilty to a felony to avoid it.
One example is Alice Johnson, who passed phone messages along to a drug dealer, and as a member of the conspiracy got sentenced based on the total amount of drugs that the dealer moved. There's no parole in the Federal system, so her life sentence means exactly that -- when she leaves it will be in a pine box.
Roko has not been acting as if she considers Faye and Bubbles to be felons though.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 31 May 2018, 14:10 ---Officer Basilisk said the fight club was only just barely illegal, so even with conspiracy charges it might not have risen to a felony level.
On the other hand there were the bigger fish Roko was after. She hinted they were doing some seriously bad things. Get involved with someone like that in any capacity and the law can cause you so much trouble that you'll plead guilty to a felony to avoid it.
Roko has not been acting as if she considers Faye and Bubbles to be felons though.
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Roko's turn-around in her behavior towards them has always puzzled me. Yeah, I'm dead certain that the files she got from CW show that Bubbles was working at the fight club under 'extreme duress,' and I'm pretty sure that Roko takes a very, very dim view of slavery, so I don't have a lot of doubt that she looked at that evidence and decided that Bubbles was actually reasonably good people. Faye, though? I mean, yes, she was desperate and needed that job, but that only goes so far.
Zebediah:
Technically what Faye and Bubbles were doing wasn’t illegal - they were repairing damaged robots, not taking part in the fights. Granted, the larger enterprise they were involved in was illegal, so it’s in a gray area. But I strongly suspect that the folder that Spookybot dropped in Roko’s lap contained enough evidence to convict Corpse Witch while clearing everyone else.
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