Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for January 22, 2023

See, the judge is congenial…..

Can’t do the time? Don’t do the crime!

“Just do the Best You Can,” the old “Country” Johnny Mathis song (the country/western singer not pop singer).

Is that Senator Belfry

“Give it all you got.”

I remember some folks, mostly those back before the ACA, suggesting they’d need to become a convicted felon in order to get the medical care they needed, but couldn’t afford. This guys freedom is gone, but health care, meals, housing, heating/air and utilities are all taken care of. Except for the decor, it sounds like a free rest home.

Watch for it on the next addition of Dateline

ba dum tss

Can’t do the time? Don’t be innocent and the prime suspect, when in a dishonest jurisdiction.

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Nor will he be able to pay his lawyer.

You should have thought about that before you got yourself convicted…

Don’t sign up for any longevity experiments.

If he dies in his cell, just leave him there until his sentence is up.

Typical idea of modern “justice”

Don’t worry about being able to live out your sentence, the state throws in a free cremation as part of the deal.

I would say you will live out your life there regardless.

De facto death sentence.

In that case, we’ll make it a life sentence.

Actually, this isn’t a joke; this is a real story from British jurisprudence. Very slightly different wording, however.

With good behavior we’ll let you out in 50.

Cosmo and shoe are astounded at the brilliance of the judge.

Is that Senator Belfrey?

This is definitely a repeat and I have no idea how old the original version was.

Right up there with those multiple life sentences, they dish out on individuals. It’s nice to see the courts imagining numbers like “a gazillion billion zillion.”

Too close to reality to be funny. In Washington State a twenty year old was sentenced to 150 years for a gang shooting (of the wrong person who wasn’t in a gang), with no possibility of parole.

The deal would’ve been sealed if the Judge had said, ‘60 years and a wake up.’