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Laws need to be objective to avoid bias and corruption. The vagueness of continuity you speak of manifests in the sentencing. Maybe the mandatory minimum for se
by lr4444lr 9y ago
Laws need to be objective to avoid bias and corruption. The vagueness of continuity you speak of manifests in the sentencing. Maybe the mandatory minimum for sex offender registration is too high, but the actual conviction needs to hold.
- visarga 9y ago> mandatory minimum This means a judge can't use his/her discretion to forgive, imposing extra toughness on the accused, usually in absurd ways, such as 30 years in prison for stealing a doughnut because of 2 prior similar petty theft convictions. But a Wall Street type could abuse billions of dollars and go free. I think this kind of cookie cutter justice is perverse and just serves to wage social war and fill up prisons.
- ageofwant 9y agoBy the time it comes to "conviction" it is far, far too late. By then several lives have been ruined, reputations damaged, and thousands of dollars of fees spent. To argue that the sentencing somehow fixes the inhumanity of the laws is utter rubbish.