Quote from: SomaliRebel on June 11, 2016, 07:50:34 PM

I have read your post above. You chose to plead out, and then grumble about it.
I would buy your ideological protestations if you, certain of being in the right, took your case to the jury. You didn't. So I do not.

First, I did not plead out. Yes, they pretty much immediately offered a lesser felony if I admitted guilt. I did not. Eventually they offered a small misdemeanor if only I would admit guilt. I refuse their offer. After many months and almost $200,000 in legal fees they decided to drop the case against me and against all the seized property if I agreed to let them keep part of the seized property (basically to save face on their part). This was not a plea deal. In a plea deal you must admit guilt. I did not. This was a straight payoff to avoid the huge costs of fighting something like this. You may be sitting on $400,000 in liquid assets you would be willing to spend on justice by a committee of people who are not smart enough to get out of jury duty, don't want to be there, take what the judge says as gospel, and wouldn't know a Bitcoin from a hole in the ground - that may be your situation - it is not mine. In the end we decided for our family's sake the cost and risk was not worth it.

Maybe you don't realize this but even if I won all the cases they do not pay your legal fees and there is no recourse to get your legal fees reimbursed. And to add insult to injury even if you win, legal costs are generally not tax deductible. Add that to your calculations there Mr. "you should take it to trial if you are innocent".

So, someone must risk going to jail and total financial ruin in front of a jury in order to impress you? Have you personally had to face five years in prison on a coin flip? Even if you have and even if you did take it to trail so what? My wife and I did struggle with the whole thing over many months. We went back and forth on it. Sometimes thinking we should get our day in court to prove beyond doubt that they were wrong and risk the five years in prison. You can sit there behind you keyboard in your easy chair anonymously spouting your shit but your opinion simply does not matter.

Let's hear your story of bravery and bravado Mr. "proved my innocence at all cost" against a similar situation.