Comment by calmoo

Comment by calmoo 4 days ago

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Not to defend the author, but I think a more generous reading of this section from the blogpost:

> A brief summary is that I'm currently serving prison time for poor decisions and lifestyle choices I made in my twenties, all related to drugs.

Is that their poor decisions were related to drugs.

Hamuko 4 days ago

The blog article that he links to has this in it:

>My name is Preston Thorpe, I'm 31 years old and I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.)

https://pthorpe92.dev/intro/my-story/

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  • qualeed 4 days ago

    Seems accurate. He was convicted of drug crimes, not assault.

    People are real quick to forget about innocent until proven guilty for some reason.

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    • dylan604 4 days ago

      There's also a difference of being guilty of doing something but never having charges brought against you. Many times in domestic violence cases we see the victim not press charges. It doesn't mean the victim was not the recipient of violence.

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      • qualeed 4 days ago

        Whatever speculations you want to make, the person was not convicted of assault.

        It's not the place of random hacker news commenters to try to and hold assault against him because you think, after reading 2 minutes about the case, that he should have been convicted.

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        • dylan604 4 days ago

          I never said anything about this specific case. Everything I said was generic differences between actually doing something and not having charges brought vs given the presumption of innocence while defense against charges.

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riv991 4 days ago

In his earlier blog post that this one links, he says:

> I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.)

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  • diggan 4 days ago

    Which doesn't seem to be wrong? At least from the linked document, he went to prison for non-violent drug crimes, unless I misunderstand what the document says?

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  • pookha 4 days ago

    Him claiming he's in prison for non-violent crimes (like he's your local herb dealer) takes gumption...Authorities linked his Carfentanil escapades to several deaths.

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    • djrj477dhsnv 4 days ago

      Indirectly causing a death doesn't make a crime violent. A doctor guilty of fatal negligence isn't a violent criminal either.

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