The truth of what happened is being concealed here, and we're left with enough breadcrumbs to figure it out.
People who run legal systems by and large tend to know what is going to get them frog-marched to the edge of a shallow ditch. They're not going to give someone 15 years for burning a fagggot flag.
But they *might* give someone 15 years for being a repeat offender, especially if the past offenses were violent, and for threatening to commit arson.
And the only narrative we have is from the fagggot (I'm really only using that term because the site doesn't want me to, btw) and from the county attorney who obviously has an axe to grind.
We will never know what those 12 jurors were told. We will never know what the selection process focused on. We will never know what the actual charges were.
All we are allowed to know is what the activists are telling us.
Martinez is obviously a piece of shit. The activists know what they're doing - they chose a case where there has GOT to be other stuff going on besides the hate crime, getting him a long prison stint, and pretending like burning a flag is the root cause. I don't believe it is.
What I *do* believe is that these snakes actually got a bunch of self-described libertarians to at least partially defend an obvious garbage human.
You're all being played, and opening the door for them to push toward the day when they DO give 15 years for burning a flag.