New Hampshire Republican candidate suspends campaign after his 1989 murder conviction revealed
New Hampshire Republican candidate suspends campaign after his 1989 murder conviction revealed
Mark Edgington spent eight years in prison for a second-degree murder charge in connection with the beating and strangulation death of a motel manager in 1989
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Republican Mark Edgington, 53, told the New Hampshire Bulletin last week that he had hoped voters would look past his 1989 second-degree murder conviction, but that it becoming public had caused him and his family distress.
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He maintains his innocence and told the Bulletin that he was hiding in the motel bathroom during the killing was carried out by a friend.
Great leader he would be
"Who among us hasn't hidden in a motel bathroom while their friend murdered the manager outside? I ask you! When brought to justice, where I was innocent, I instead pled 'no contest' as an innocent person would. I'll paraphrase my Lord and savior Jesus Christ when I say 'Let ye who hasn't been convicted of murder cast the first stone'!" -Edgington probably
Innocent people plead guilty or no contest to charges all the time, tbh. I think what's crazy is running for office as a member of the party famous for its calls of "law and order" after spending eight years in the big house at the hands of the "law." You might think that would clue you in that maybe the legal system is not all it's cracked up to be.
Eight years in the clink? The slammer? The hoosegow?
I mean, the first part is fucked up too, y'all just normalised it - as if falsely pleading guilty falls under telling the truth.
And all for the sake of the system itself to function normally or by direct & intentional design, to make professionals (judges, lawyers, etc) appear more successful by some counting metric.
No contest isn't "I'm guilty", it's more like "I choose not to fight this". It isn't inherently dishonest by itself.
I said 'falsely pleading guiltily', not 'choosing to not contest'.