DELANO, Calif. (AP) — “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has been sent to a California state prison to serve his sentence for two rape convictions.

Authorities said Wednesday that the 47-year-old Masterson has been admitted to North Kern State Prison, and they released his first prison mug shot. The photo shows him wearing orange prison attire, with long hair and a beard.

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So in your scenario, what happens if someone is wrongly convicted?

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Oh that’s easy the supreme Court already said it doesn’t matter. Being convicted is enough even if you are truly innocent.

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Nobody is ever wrongfully convicted. We have the perfect system and it never ever makes mistakes.

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i just came from a post about OJ Simpson so believe me when i say everything this guy dudeman just said is true

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He hasn’t thought that far ahead. I’m guessing he’s the type with a lot of opinions and not many original thoughts

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In this case, it might actually be okay if they’re wrongly convicted and chemically castrated rather than executed as chemical castration can usually be reversed (you have to scroll down a bit, but it’s mentioned).. It’s not like you burn off anyone’s genitals.

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“Just hormones.”

Anyone who has ever seen someone on hormonal medication knows that it can profoundly change your outlook and personality. Even birth control can have emotional impacts on people, and they may not even notice it because the medication is so normalized that people don’t see it as a potential problem.

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I edited that bit cos I knew someone would think that was my entire point. But as you said yourself “it CAN have” (emphasis mine) undesirable effects. Most medications, hormonal or not, CAN have these effects. But the vast majority of people on these medications don’t get these effects. And even if every person who was chemically castrated suffered these effects (and again, they don’t, we wouldn’t use it to treat some diseases if it did), the fact it’s reversible makes it infinitely better than the death penalty. Reality isn’t perfect. There’s always gonna be compromises.

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I guess we’re all going to slide past the gen pop as a shortcut to capital punishment. Makes the chemical castration kind of irrelevant, doesn’t it?

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Yeah the effects weren’t really reversible for Alan Turing.

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In my scenario, the proof would have to be concrete so ideally there’s no such thing as wrongly convicted.

Proof like caught in the act, semen / blood sample and / or video proof like with child porn.

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Literally all of that can easily be falsified, and historically has been to wrongly imprison people.

Caught in the act by the judge and jury themselves? Or by a witness who promises they saw it?

Video proof like what AI can easily fabricate these days?

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It sounds like you don’t trust any evidence and think Danny was falsely imprisoned based on that lack of trust.

Is everyone in jail innocent?

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Basically impossible unless people start raping people in the police station, even then good luck getting cops to collect evidence on eachother

Also semen… If I creampie my wife she can go claim rape? What about every other woman I’ve creampied? Why do you think any single piece of evidence could be strong enough for this sentence? Even a video could just be roleplay on it’s own.

You need to read up on how people are prosecuted before making suggestions how they should be sentenced.

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If you creampie your wife and she uses that against you to charge you with rape, you married a cunt or you raped her. Or both.

Great example Einstein.

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Oh, so never, then? Works for me.

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