Summary
Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, received a 23-month prison sentence for falsely accusing Daniel Pierson of attempted rape and kidnapping in Pennsylvania, leading to his wrongful month-long incarceration.
Urumova pled guilty to seven misdemeanors, including filing false reports and fabricating evidence.
Investigators uncovered her lie after finding inconsistencies in surveillance footage. She admitted she targeted Pierson because she had seen him before.
Alongside jail time, she must pay $3,600 in restitution, undergo a mental health evaluation, and serve probation. Prosecutors warned the false claim damaged public trust and harmed real victims.
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption, that a simple accusation by itself means something, it doesn’t. They don’t prosecute a mistaken eyewitness for false testimony. A simple false claim doesn’t bring the wrath of the system down on someone to the point where they are charged for those false claims, you’ve got to show a complete disregard for reality and the system for things to reach that level.
People lie about shit all the time, especially to police, very few reach the point where they are prosecuted for those lies. The ones that rise to the level where they bother to actually do something about those false claims should receive the same full punishment of those false accusations.
If you knowingly falsely accuse someone of murder with the intention of having them be prosecuted and sentenced for a crime you know they did not commit, then you should receive that same punishment, not a slap on the wrist like a year of prison and some fines.
You still aren’t explaining why this merits the state murdering the accuser.
Ok, you seem to want to actually argue about capitol punishment, not false accusations, derailing the conversation for whatever reason.
If your issue is with the extreme of capitol punishment, then you deal with that separately, because that doesn’t apply for 99.99% of crimes on the books. If there’s no death penalty for the accusation, then whether it should apply to false accusations is irrelevant.
Purposeful, false accusations should result in the same punishment as the accusation, across the board regardless of the accused crime. Don’t falsely accuse an innocent person of something if you aren’t willing to accept the same sentence for your knowingly false accusation, seems pretty simple.
What I’m trying to point out is that you made a knee jerk blanket statement (false accusers should get the exact same punishment as the person they accused would have), and refuse to back down even if it means escalating what is clearly not a capital crime into a justification for the state to execute someone.
But I’m sure the way the world and the law works is that there are super easy blanket solutions to something that just nobody has ever thought of or tried applying before 👍
There’s nothing knee jerk about it. That issue literally only applies to capital punishment. Remove capital punishment and your point disappears, so that should be the focus since it would solve both situations simultaneously.
Instead, you seem to be using it to justify not doing anything at all for the other 99.99% of crimes where that would never even apply. Which begs the question of why you want to continue to let false accusations receive minimal punishment?
Well, since the answer won’t matter anyway, you just want folks to feel wrong, I’m gonna just throw my 2cents on in.
If you live in a place that has capital punishment, and are willing to use that against a fellow human, you are attempting murder by doing so. If you also were to do this I’m a place where there is a higher rate of incarceration already, proven false imprisonment and executions (see the innocence project for examples), brings further merit to, you were REALLY TRYING to kill this person. So, yes, if you are OK with doing that, knowing you’re lying so bad your pants are on fire, you should be willing to put yourself in their place. They would not be there if not for you and your shit faced attitude.