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A 100 yr and a 70 yr jail sentence are basically the same thing. My guess is they knew they could win at trial pretty easily so they just didn’t offer him much
by mattmaroon 3y ago
A 100 yr and a 70 yr jail sentence are basically the same thing. My guess is they knew they could win at trial pretty easily so they just didn’t offer him much of a deal, and from his perspective it was all or nothing so he might as well give trial a shot.
- evancox100 3y agoWhy would they have offered him ANY deal? (Do we know they did?) All the co-conspirators agreed to testify, and it was a slam dunk case. He could have plead guilty of his own conscience, of course, but no reason for the prosecution to offer any incentives in this case.
- mattmaroon 3y agoIt actually seems that they did not. The only reason would be to spare the expense of a trial, which isn’t much in the grand scheme of things in this particular instance. They can probably extract money from him in fines, presumably he has some left somewhere.