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"First-time offender, All non-violent charges, Two life sentences + 40 years without parole" Seems pretty clear cut. I would like to take this moment to remind
by superchroma 4y ago
"First-time offender, All non-violent charges, Two life sentences + 40 years without parole"
Seems pretty clear cut. I would like to take this moment to remind you that Ghislane Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoUS judges are free to sentence a convict for allegations of which he was acquitted. Sentencing him for allegations that were dismissed isn't really different.
- superchroma 4y agoYes I know they are free to do that but that doesn't mean that it's fair.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoWell, I'd agree; the fact that that's allowed is an obvious miscarriage of justice. But it's also how the system is explicitly supposed to work; it doesn't make for a strong "facts-based" argument for clemency.
- vkou 4y agoIs it? There's two angles to justice. The legal, and the moral. What was done to him was legal, and nobody's denying that. Given the scope of the crimes he was convicted for, I don't think it was immortal to throw the entire book at him, to the maximum possible legal extent.