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Oh come on now! He was just trying to meat a nice girl!
But to be fair, he never really did anything. He is accused of plotting with another man to kidnap, torture, kill and eat a woman. It’s always hard to prove conspiracy.
“These two guys were plotting to rape and murder a woman.” Prove it.
“This guy was plotting to molest a child.” Prove it.
“These three guys were plotting to rob a bank.” Prove it.
“These gangbangers were plotting to rob someone.” Prove it.
“This group was plotting to smuggle some dope.” Prove it.
This man was plotting to grow some weed in the forest.” Prove it.
The guy down the straight was plotting to burglarize a home.” Prove it.
Conspiracy is very hard to prove. Sure, they were sitting around talking about doing this or that. But guess what? That’s not illegal.
I mean, someone could walk into my room right now and say, “Hey Bob, what do you say we go out and kidnap, rape, torture and kill some bitches. Wouldn’t that be cool or what?”
Well you know it? It’s not even illegal to say things like that. Even if I got him on tape saying that and took it to the cops, they would tell me to go away. How do we know he was really going to do that? Maybe he was just talking. Maybe he was talking out of his head. Maybe it was just idle fantasizing. Prove that he was actually going to carry this crime out rather than it just being wishful thinking. You can’t.
Conspiracy cases are very difficult. Most prosecutors refuse to even take them on. Though they do prosecute a lot of terrorism conspiracy cases. “These guys were plotting to blow up a shopping center here in the US.” “These Palestinians were plotting to kidnap an Israeli and hold them for ransom.
In the US, these cases usually get a conviction from what I can tell, probably due to people being so afraid.
In Israel, you hardly need much evidence to convict anyone, and Palestinians always get convicted. Or you can always just throw someone in jail forever and keep them there with no charges being filed against them.
