On average, Dutch courts impose harsher sentences on suspects who are less well-off than those in a better socioeconomic position, the Research and Data Center (WODC) found in a new study on criminal law.
Would love to know more about what kind of crimes this is talking about, and how the less-poor can bullshit their way out of it
They can afford better lawyers, most likely.
Yeah, I would assume this pattern holds across much of the world…
Why am I always hearing bad news about the dutch all of a sudden?
Probably because fediverse users keep linking it.
Also, let’s not pretend that this is significantly different in any other western country. Paid lawyers are standard in most judicial systems, wealthy suspects will always have an advantage because of that.
Maybe they annoyed a media owner? Which if so makes them better in my book, but since I really dunno shrug
It’s a dutch site.
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