I think your jumping the gun. From reading that article, it sounds like the Police are holding them on those charges. It does not sound it's made it to the prosecutor yet. The police can arrest you on charges, but it is up to the prosecutor if they actually want to prosecute.
It would appear that Stefan Warner has been formally charged, arraigned, and bail set at $1,000 on one count of a terrorism hoax. I did not look up the other woman, but I assume that she has also been charged formally.
That says a judge has been appointed to determine probable cause in the arrest. According to http://www.oklahomacounty.org/Judges/page/Judge-Russell-Hall... that judge calls 45,000 cases per year - that's a case every 20 minutes 24x7. One imagines he has a low tolerance for people wasting his time.
It seems to me there's a clear difference between a "terrorism hoax" and "jumping at shadows", just waiting to be clearly exploited by their counsel...
That record looks fairly sparse. I think the default behavior is that they move forward like they will prosecute until a decision has been made not to.
I think there is a line from the political satire comedy series Veep on HBO that answers your question nicely. It's a sage piece of advice offered to the Vice President from a Senator she's asking to help her with some PR on an Oil issue: "...you don’t want to fuck with [big oil] because they fuck in a very unpleasant fashion." It's a really well written (if extremely vulgar) show. Art imitates life, life imitates art, etc...
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I hope that the judge hearing this case dismisses it in its entirety during the preliminary hearing. How is this even possible?
I hope the judge rips the prosecutor a new one too.
Edit: if the prosecutor doesn't smack the cops upside the head first!
I think your jumping the gun. From reading that article, it sounds like the Police are holding them on those charges. It does not sound it's made it to the prosecutor yet. The police can arrest you on charges, but it is up to the prosecutor if they actually want to prosecute.
It would appear that Stefan Warner has been formally charged, arraigned, and bail set at $1,000 on one count of a terrorism hoax. I did not look up the other woman, but I assume that she has also been charged formally.
http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/GetCaseInformation.asp...
That says a judge has been appointed to determine probable cause in the arrest. According to http://www.oklahomacounty.org/Judges/page/Judge-Russell-Hall... that judge calls 45,000 cases per year - that's a case every 20 minutes 24x7. One imagines he has a low tolerance for people wasting his time.
With that sort of throughput, I have to wonder if he even has the time to determine if people are wasting his time.
It seems to me there's a clear difference between a "terrorism hoax" and "jumping at shadows", just waiting to be clearly exploited by their counsel...
That record looks fairly sparse. I think the default behavior is that they move forward like they will prosecute until a decision has been made not to.
I think there is a line from the political satire comedy series Veep on HBO that answers your question nicely. It's a sage piece of advice offered to the Vice President from a Senator she's asking to help her with some PR on an Oil issue: "...you don’t want to fuck with [big oil] because they fuck in a very unpleasant fashion." It's a really well written (if extremely vulgar) show. Art imitates life, life imitates art, etc...