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It doesn't really matter if the guy is an asshole. Harsher sentences for incrementing a URL than for rape or vehicular manslaughter are ridiculous.
by khuey 14y ago
It doesn't really matter if the guy is an asshole. Harsher sentences for incrementing a URL than for rape or vehicular manslaughter are ridiculous.
- DannyBee 14y agoSure, but that's a question for the legislature, of course. Courts are going to give deference to the policy choices of what crimes deserve what punishments.
- jbooth 14y agoThey hit him with the maximum sentence, not the minimum -- this one's on the courts. If it was a case of someone going away for 10 years for shoplifting because of 3 strikes, then that's on the legislature.
- DannyBee 14y agoNo it isn't The minimum/maximums are legislatively defined (In this case, through the US sentencing guidelines, which came through the Sentencing act of 1984) If they didn't want the maximum to be the maximum, they shouldn't have put it in the range? For the most part, the actual calculation is mechanical. Unless the judge performed an upward departure (which i can't find any evidence of), he was just following the guidelines.