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They are looking at 20 years if they get caught: 18 U.S. Code section 1991 Additionally they are releasing hazardous materials by breaking open boxes: 18 U.S.

• gruez 5y ago
  > They are looking at 20 years if they get caught: 18 U.S. Code section 1991 likely not, see https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-eleventy-million-years/ https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
  • friendlydog 5y ago
    It leaves out the important information, what does whale sushi taste like. Interesting to know, though these inconsistencies between cases, and time seem rife for popularity and crony "justice". We like group X so they get 6 months we hate group Y so 20 years for them. There is a reason I became a programmer not a lawyer. Deterministic code is easier than subjective rulings at least for me.
    • gruez 5y ago
      >these inconsistencies between cases, and time seem rife for popularity and crony "justice". The sentencing guidelines I mentioned seems specifically designed to mitigate this issue? >We like group X so they get 6 months we hate group Y so 20 years for them. There is a reason I became a programmer not a lawyer. Deterministic code is easier than subjective rulings at least for me. The sentencing guidelines seem pretty deterministic to me. There's a bunch of factors. The factors add up to a certain amount of points, and the amount of points determines your sentence to within a fairly narrow band. It's certainly not the "6 months for one group and 20 years for another group" that you talk about.