EmpressEri - Whitelist Report: Cazz ‘Lucky’ Khada, CO code of conduct: Pardons
What’s your BYOND key?
EmpressEri
Round ID:
28953
Your character name:
Eka ‘Madhatter’ Aimise
Accused BYOND key:
Uncle Bourbon
Accused character name:
Cazz ‘Lucky’ Khada
What rule(s) were broken?:
CO code of conduct: Pardons
Whitelist in question:
Commanding Officer
Description of the incident:
MT Jim ‘Jam’ Miller was arrested by myself for several charges; Damage to government property, Contraband, and resisting arrest, for trying to break into the XO’s office with a MAC-15 in hand. Jim requested an appeal from the CO for the contraband charge. While we were appealing it, I opened the cell door to pass them the appeal form, upon which they ran to the table in front, to grab an unloaded MAC-15 which I had placed there as evidence, all of this in front of the CO. While they did not grab it, I saw it as a textbook case of jailbreak, and thus applied the new charge, and moved them to the perma cells. Jim then requested an appeal for the jailbreak charge, as they were “Just showing an example” of how they could easily break out, or something of the sort. What is most relevant to this report, is that the CO Cazz Khada agreed with this, and said they would pardon them, despite my voiced concerns, and were still considering pardoning the contraband charge, until I clarified that they were charged for possession of it, and them dropping it to the ground when I saw them isn’t enough to pardon or appeal them. Even after this, they had to be arrested as they were getting redressed, as I realised that they were wearing the XO’s windbreaker, and had in fact managed to get inside and steal the jacket, so I added a theft charge.
Cazz Khada pardoned the MT of Jailbreak saying “I will drop the jailbreak charge, he was obviously just being passionate in his case of defending his innocence”.
I find this line of reasoning very questionable for a pardon for several reasons:
- Innocence isn’t strictly why you pardon someone, since by taking a pardon, you admit that you did the crime.
- At no point was the MT showing remorse for their various crimes.
- Jim was one of three MT’s awake at this time, along side several comtechs, he was not critical to the marines in any way.
- Jim ran out of their cell, in direct view of the CO.
- Jailbreak is a capital crime, and cannot be pardoned without HC’s direct permission.
I should also note, that unless I’m misremembering, Cazz did not announce the pardon to officialise it, which is required under the CO code of conduct.
Evidence:
The only screenshot I took during the round, was a fax I sent to the provost during the round. The round logs should show what me and the CO were discussing.
Screenshot of the fax in question: https://gyazo.com/1f82cd1df930e5957a364a5dec8eb232