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It doesn't but if she gets a lenient sentence, the other guy should get the same. But we all know he won't (most likely). May be then it's a reasonable compromi

It doesn't but if she gets a lenient sentence, the other guy should get the same. But we all know he won't (most likely). May be then it's a reasonable compromise.

akudha 4y ago
The other guy is not female, white or blonde. Studies have shown that women get less punishment for the same crime than men. Same way, good looking criminals also get less punishment than not-good looking ones.
- Ekaros 4y ago
  And this is why I believe justice system should be blind. The person's age, sex, gender, name, family status, religion and so on should be hidden from the jury and the judge. So that we can get fair treatment for everyone.
  - AdrianB1 4y ago
    - educaysean 4y ago
      But white people will?
  - from 4y ago
    If there's two drug traffickers convicted of selling 20 kilograms of cocaine, one came from the streets of Baltimore with no father and the other came from a supportive family in Long Island, should the sentence be the same? How about when immigrants from the former Soviet Union scam Medicare for $5 million and then at sentencing talk about how hard their childhood in Armenia Russia etc was to get a lower sentence? That's probably not fair either. There's no easy answer.
  - hunglee2 4y ago
    I think we should do the opposite - penalties should be sighted, and variable according to the person. i.e police officer committing a crime = harsher punishment than a homeless person trying to survive
FireBeyond 4y ago
> May be then it's a reasonable compromise. What? It's a reasonable compromise that we punish the male in this situation more harshly than the female because he couldn't get himself pregnant during the trial? That's not reasonable in any sense of the word. Even less so when you read through all the details and realize that Elizabeth was not an abused, cowed underling of the Balwani mastermind, but an active, and in many cases, initiating and driving part of the crimes they committed. If that was the logic, Balwani would have a pretty solid grounds for appeal. "We're punishing you more because your co-conspirator has a kid now".
dev_tty01 4y ago
Sorry, can't agree with that. Don't try to correct one mistake with another mistake. They both deserve the max, no reason to reduce his if hers is improperly reduced.

It doesn't but if she gets a lenient sentence, the other guy should get the same. But we all know he won't (most likely). May be then it's a reasonable compromise.

akudha 4y ago

The other guy is not female, white or blonde. Studies have shown that women get less punishment for the same crime than men. Same way, good looking criminals also get less punishment than not-good looking ones.

Ekaros 4y ago
And this is why I believe justice system should be blind. The person's age, sex, gender, name, family status, religion and so on should be hidden from the jury and the judge. So that we can get fair treatment for everyone.
- AdrianB1 4y ago
  - educaysean 4y ago
    But white people will?
- from 4y ago
  If there's two drug traffickers convicted of selling 20 kilograms of cocaine, one came from the streets of Baltimore with no father and the other came from a supportive family in Long Island, should the sentence be the same? How about when immigrants from the former Soviet Union scam Medicare for $5 million and then at sentencing talk about how hard their childhood in Armenia Russia etc was to get a lower sentence? That's probably not fair either. There's no easy answer.
- hunglee2 4y ago
  I think we should do the opposite - penalties should be sighted, and variable according to the person. i.e police officer committing a crime = harsher punishment than a homeless person trying to survive

FireBeyond 4y ago

> May be then it's a reasonable compromise. What? It's a reasonable compromise that we punish the male in this situation more harshly than the female because he couldn't get himself pregnant during the trial? That's not reasonable in any sense of the word. Even less so when you read through all the details and realize that Elizabeth was not an abused, cowed underling of the Balwani mastermind, but an active, and in many cases, initiating and driving part of the crimes they committed. If that was the logic, Balwani would have a pretty solid grounds for appeal. "We're punishing you more because your co-conspirator has a kid now".

dev_tty01 4y ago

Sorry, can't agree with that. Don't try to correct one mistake with another mistake. They both deserve the max, no reason to reduce his if hers is improperly reduced.