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There is too much risk built in to the sentencing though. He will basically be forced to take a plea of 10 years and hopefully get out in 5. I would like to s

• tptacek 10y ago
  He's not going to be offered 10 years. If he goes to trial and is convicted, he'll likely serve less than 5. Once again: 40 years is not in fact a sentence that is available to the judge; the judge would have to discard the sentencing guidelines entirely, and that sentence would fall apart on appeal. Further, there is simply no relationship between the number "40 years" and the guidelines. It's not like the DOJ is marking up the guideline sentence by X0%. They're instead using a ridiculous process to add the sentences for every count of a crime up, which is simply not how federal sentencing works.