this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Counting or not counting prosecutions that end with the defendent vindicated and almost a million dollars richer?
Sure it counts, getting out of indeterminate time pre-trial holding with a payout after the state has charged you with a felony is a hell of a dice roll, compared to the alternative of not exercising free speech in the first place.
Also this only works as long as the legal system isnt taken over.
yeah not every defendant has the resources to contact the right legal help to get the detention overturned or compensated
like, say you get held without bond for 2 or 3 weeks, then released, you might lose your job or miss paying rent or any number of other real world effects, this has an obvious chilling effect on speech
Sadly due to a large increase of crime the time until your case will go to trial has increased to ... three years
... five years
... ten years
... thirty years
... a hundred years ...
In the mean time, make yourself useful to society by working in jail to earn your keep.