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Freedom Downtime (2001)
Funny
I thought America was supposed to be this free country that grants rights to their citizens. What a joke. It's funny to me to see all the foreign comments saying it's shocking. If anyone here has been through the legal process in this country especially for a felony, this movie isn't probably very shocking to them. When the police pick your name from the hat, you are not going to walk away clean. Unless you have very deep pockets of course, then you have about a 30% chance of winning your case. A big chunk your money will go towards posting bail so you don't have to sit in county jail for several months until the D.A. actually looks at your file. Even if you don't post bail, do the time til your case is heard, and win. You just sat in jail with mostly crackdealers and crackheads if you're in a major city like I was, and you can't win a lawsuit for wrongful imprisonment and lost wages because that's just what the system is. Not to mention the original charge(s) will still pop up in background checks about 75% of the time. Get a charge exponged off your record and you'll still have the same odds of it popping up. Trust me, it's happened to me and just about everybody I know with felonies. My advice is be smart about your crimes. I would say be good and don't commit any but the fact is everybody in America is going to commit at least a crime or two in their lifetime, some by accident. If you get caught and are looking at a lot of jail/prison time, run your ass off! Say you get caught on the run, the court process takes so long that by the time trial starts, they could care less if you ran or turned yourself in. They just want you to accept a plea so they don't have to invest time and money into convicting you because that's all it is, it's a business.