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If it's your first offense and don't have a weapon and don't hurt anyone, stealing from a liquor store won't get you very much time at all.
by smabie 6y ago
If it's your first offense and don't have a weapon and don't hurt anyone, stealing from a liquor store won't get you very much time at all.
- walrus01 6y agoYes but if it's your first offense in the world of multimillion dollar white collar crime you'll probably get an ankle monitor and house arrest. Or six months... I've seen a number of people banned for life from securities trading in British Columbia, for frauds exceeding 10 million, and they received basically no prison sentence at all.
- Thorrez 6y agoCanada (and most of the world) has much lower prison sentences than the US. > To give an example, the average burglary sentence in the United States is 16 months, compared to 5 months in Canada and 7 months in England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_incarceration_rate_with_other_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...