Player Report
Your Byond ID? ito726
Date of Incident June 5, 2021
Your Character Name? Kiara Black
Accused Byond Key(if known): Unknown
Accused Character Name Sergio Stone
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) round ending at 19:30 uk time, so approx 18:30 for incident.
What rule(s) were broken: CO guidelines - pardons
Description of the incident: I will be adding some extra info for the context in which the issue happened. The reason for this PR is that there was no in-round resolution primarily due to a lack of mods (with fax powers) for most of the round. The CO Sergio Stone is the only person being reported even if i will mention others, if there are any other incidents i believe the have been dealt with in the round itself so if they get mentioned, they are here only for context only.
James 'Jailbrid' Cooper (MT) and i believe Harvey 'meta' Singe (Alpha Scout Spec), had a small verbal dispute which then escalate to fight in brief. The nature of said fight is in the form of knife throwing and catching. Naturally they hit at least another person. This gives others the idea to play this game too, and Ethan 'Crusader' Weiss and Rob Warraker start playing it among themselves too. I believe they were both of the rank of PFC's too, but im not sure at the time of wrting this. One of the 2 new participants hits the Delta Spec (and possibly others too). The 2 MPs 'chase' 3 out of the 4 participants with the spec being given special consideration due to them at lest having the luck or sanity of not throwing in a direction where they might have hit a non-participant (they do fuck up James a bit though, but hes one of the main participants and investigators of the fight). CO probably witnesses most of this as it happened in brief. James and Rob end up in Medbay where they get cuffed by the CMP Kiara Black, Ethan gets arrested by the other MP (forgot name) somewhere else and brought to brig. James escapes somehow while the CMP was with them waiting for the MP to get there, leaving only rob and Ethan to actually get arrested. The MP was busy in brig with Ethan and the CO discussing something, presumably the charges. I set the charges to be disorderly conduct for all 3 and 2 of them got resisting arrest as well. This is very much so on the lower end of what is possible to charge with spec even getting away without any. While in processing the 2 guys who were still in custody, the CO decides they are pardoned and are to be released as i forget his exact reasoning but it was along the lines of 'this is too minor'. The CMP decides to follow his orders, despite the relatively minor procedural mistake of the prisoners not even being fully processed (charges wont be reflected in jas due to this, as they don't exist there), as all MPs and perps were informed. The CMP informed the CO that they will fax on their way out though the exact reason was not specified. There was no announcement later regarding the pardons as far as i know. The Fax basically summarizes the pardons and procedural mistakes, requesting a warrant for NoD on the procedural stuff, and questioning the suitability of the CO as a CO due to lack of judgment in issuing such pardons. The tone of the fax is very harsh as its IC.
Later in the round James gets eventually caught and is charged with Desertion (they did a bit of of a tour of the front-lines) and the 2 pending charges of Resisting Arrest and Disorderly Conduct. The captain is involved a bit here but nothing particularly noteworthy happens due the existence of the capital crime.
The main unresolved issues here are the usage and reasons behind the pardons for Rob and Ethan. Given they were not crucial for the operation, the charges were already on the lenient side. And the CO's judgment of weather or not these people, firstly deserve a pardon, and weather they are likely to behave if one was given. Ignoring any meta considerations about the players involved, simply based on their actions in the round alone, which i believe the CO has witnessed first had, there is no reason to believe they would behave, especially when you account for the resisting arrest charge.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): Logs if necessary.
How you would punish the accused: No Clue.