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Imagine sitting in a prison cell, for 5 months, having no idea how long you will be there. That sounds almost worse than knowing your sentence. At the end of t
by harryquach 3y ago
Imagine sitting in a prison cell, for 5 months, having no idea how long you will be there. That sounds almost worse than knowing your sentence.
At the end of the day he deserves everything he's getting
- BurningFrog 3y agoAre we sure that he'll be locked up waiting for sentencing?
- dragontamer 3y agoHe had a cushy house-arrest deal at first (after paying for bail) and then started to abuse his computer-access to tamper with witnesses. So yeah. I'm pretty sure he's getting the slammer while waiting for sentencing.
- beezle 3y agoHe will almost certainly appeal and as part of that will try to post bond to stay out until the appeal is heard.
- FireBeyond 3y agoI wonder how posting bond works post-conviction (pre-appeal). As in sourcing of funds, as now you're in a limbo of reasonable doubt about how you made your money (and in this case, his parents also shared in the largesse).
- JohnFen 3y agoThey'll also figure in how likely they think he is to skip out and flee the country or something. He very likely has the money to do it stashed away somewhere, so the question is would he be willing to? I don't know how that would play out, but he isn't exactly looking good, character-wise.
- FireBeyond 3y ago> so the question is would he be willing to? To me, probably. He exhibits much of the same traits as Elizabeth Holmes in terms of perspective on his own intelligence and entitlement. She surrendered her passport, without mentioning she had or had access to another one, and was caught planning to leave for Mexico with a one way ticket and no accommodation booked, and then tried to claim it was "for a friend's destination wedding" (which shouldn't even have mattered - the surrender of the passport meant she was forbidden from leaving the country, regardless the reason).
- salamanderss 3y agoThat's hilarious considering neither Mexico nor US checks passports when you walk into Mexico in CA/az west except maybe San Ysidro crossing. She literally could have walked across and nobody would know, instead she did the dumbest thing possible of buying a one way last minute air ticket on a flagged passport. That would have triggered some cursory check for anybody let alone Holmes. How the hell people this dumb become CEOs.
- TillE 3y agoThere's no realistic grounds for appeal, probably not even in a country with a more lenient system for appealing criminal convictions. In America, forget it. He's been convicted, he's gonna stay in jail.
- bdcravens 3y agoYet his right to appeal is a right that he (and all convicted) have. The likelihood of success doesn't determine whether or not he can file for it.
- JohnFen 3y agoI think what TillE was talking about wasn't the likelihood of a successful appeal, but whether or not he'll stay in prison until the appeal is completed.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoI think parent has a point - I'd love to know if he can potentially buy more time out of jail by forcing an appeal, then requesting bail in the interim, even if it is expected to lose the appeal or is downright dismissed. It sounds like its plausible, but i'd like to know for a fact
- hanniabu 3y agoI'm sure his parents will get him into a resort prison
- ojbyrne 3y agoProbably in a much shittier jail for those five months too.
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- rurp 3y agoTrue, although in this case he's looking at so many years of prison time that I doubt exact number makes much difference right now.