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They 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 becaus
by jbooth 14y ago
They 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.