Rod Blagojevich
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Right. The more common thing, Joe, is the over-sentencing part of it. Those eight years in prison, I mean, the overwhelming number of the guys I was with, they did it. They were guilty. The prosecutors got it right. What they got wrong was the sentences are ridiculously unfair and wrong, and they don't match up.
Right. The more common thing, Joe, is the over-sentencing part of it. Those eight years in prison, I mean, the overwhelming number of the guys I was with, they did it. They were guilty. The prosecutors got it right. What they got wrong was the sentences are ridiculously unfair and wrong, and they don't match up.
Right. The more common thing, Joe, is the over-sentencing part of it. Those eight years in prison, I mean, the overwhelming number of the guys I was with, they did it. They were guilty. The prosecutors got it right. What they got wrong was the sentences are ridiculously unfair and wrong, and they don't match up.
And you got a nonviolent offender who first time did something wrong, whether it's a bank robbery or a drug offense or whatever it might be. And they're giving these guys 15, 20, 25 years because they have these one-size-fits-all sentencing guidelines that the politicians pass. But every case is different. Every person is different. Their backgrounds are different.
And you got a nonviolent offender who first time did something wrong, whether it's a bank robbery or a drug offense or whatever it might be. And they're giving these guys 15, 20, 25 years because they have these one-size-fits-all sentencing guidelines that the politicians pass. But every case is different. Every person is different. Their backgrounds are different.
And you got a nonviolent offender who first time did something wrong, whether it's a bank robbery or a drug offense or whatever it might be. And they're giving these guys 15, 20, 25 years because they have these one-size-fits-all sentencing guidelines that the politicians pass. But every case is different. Every person is different. Their backgrounds are different.
Their causes, the reasons for doing things, they're different. So the system is broken in the sense that they don't take into account other considerations than just these like โ formulas they follow. And so as a result, you got these people, disproportionately black, but not exclusively, who are doing these long sentences for first-time offenses.
Their causes, the reasons for doing things, they're different. So the system is broken in the sense that they don't take into account other considerations than just these like โ formulas they follow. And so as a result, you got these people, disproportionately black, but not exclusively, who are doing these long sentences for first-time offenses.
Their causes, the reasons for doing things, they're different. So the system is broken in the sense that they don't take into account other considerations than just these like โ formulas they follow. And so as a result, you got these people, disproportionately black, but not exclusively, who are doing these long sentences for first-time offenses.
Trump pardoned a woman named Alice Marie Johnson, first-time nonviolent offender, drugs. They gave her a life sentence. It was probably a lot of drugs, a life sentence. And after 20 years, Trump pulled her out, saved her. And a lot of this came from the 1994 crime bill that Joe Biden sponsored and Bill Clinton passed. The So I think I do some of that.
Trump pardoned a woman named Alice Marie Johnson, first-time nonviolent offender, drugs. They gave her a life sentence. It was probably a lot of drugs, a life sentence. And after 20 years, Trump pulled her out, saved her. And a lot of this came from the 1994 crime bill that Joe Biden sponsored and Bill Clinton passed. The So I think I do some of that.
Trump pardoned a woman named Alice Marie Johnson, first-time nonviolent offender, drugs. They gave her a life sentence. It was probably a lot of drugs, a life sentence. And after 20 years, Trump pulled her out, saved her. And a lot of this came from the 1994 crime bill that Joe Biden sponsored and Bill Clinton passed. The So I think I do some of that.
My father came from Serbia, and I'd like to try to do what I can to raise public awareness about the place of Serbia in the Balkans, because it's a country that we bombed in 1999, the United States and NATO bombed Serbia without the United Nations approval. the way Russia's invaded Ukraine.
My father came from Serbia, and I'd like to try to do what I can to raise public awareness about the place of Serbia in the Balkans, because it's a country that we bombed in 1999, the United States and NATO bombed Serbia without the United Nations approval. the way Russia's invaded Ukraine.
My father came from Serbia, and I'd like to try to do what I can to raise public awareness about the place of Serbia in the Balkans, because it's a country that we bombed in 1999, the United States and NATO bombed Serbia without the United Nations approval. the way Russia's invaded Ukraine.
Because they were trying to force the Serbian government to give up a part of their country, Kosovo. Give it up. That'd be like NATO threatening to bomb us to say, give up Texas to Mexico. And the Serbian government said, we're not going to do it.
Because they were trying to force the Serbian government to give up a part of their country, Kosovo. Give it up. That'd be like NATO threatening to bomb us to say, give up Texas to Mexico. And the Serbian government said, we're not going to do it.
Because they were trying to force the Serbian government to give up a part of their country, Kosovo. Give it up. That'd be like NATO threatening to bomb us to say, give up Texas to Mexico. And the Serbian government said, we're not going to do it.
And so the United States decided to bomb them if they didn't sign an agreement that was made in France called the Rambouillet Agreement that would have put it up to a referendum.
And so the United States decided to bomb them if they didn't sign an agreement that was made in France called the Rambouillet Agreement that would have put it up to a referendum.