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> You will get a higher sentence for being remorseless. This creates really perverse incentives, though. How in the world do you maintain innocence without bei
by nmrm2 11y ago
> You will get a higher sentence for being remorseless.
This creates really perverse incentives, though. How in the world do you maintain innocence without being "remorseless"?
At base, this operates from an assumption that the court system always finds the Truth. Which IMO is a pretty ignorance/arrogant assumption.
- tedunangst 11y agoYes, that is a problem (and even worse facing a parole board), but showing remorse is very much about convincing the court you won't do it again. So explain that you think the crime in question is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad act and that you would never do such a thing, especially not in the future. As opposed to e.g. insisting even if you didn't do it, they had it coming anyway.
- ZanyProgrammer 11y ago"but showing remorse is very much about convincing the court you won't do it again."-but you're all but admitting you did it once in order to say that you won't do it again.
- tedunangst 11y agoSo explain that you think the crime in question is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad act and that you would never do such a thing, especially not in the future.