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I feel like I fell for link bait - awful title. That said, this is hardly a fair sentence. He should have to serve time equal to all those lives he destroyed.

I feel like I fell for link bait - awful title. That said, this is hardly a fair sentence. He should have to serve time equal to all those lives he destroyed. How about surrendering the money and life in prison?

andrewmunsell 13y ago
Considering his age, he'll likely be in prison for the majority of the rest of his life (if not the entirety of it).
- viggity 13y ago
  for non-violent offenses, with good behavior you typically only serve 30-40% of your sentence (at least in iowa, my wife is a social worker and deals with people in the system).
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  - agwa 13y ago
    He was convicted in federal court, and in the federal system there's no parole and only very limited credit for good behavior. He'll serve at least 87.1% of his sentence[1] (barring unlikely events such as a successful SCOTUS appeal or a pardon). Most likely he'll die in prison -- old prisoners age quite quickly. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time
  - YokoZar 13y ago
    That's because the prison system is overcrowded, in part because of the judge in question, so I'm not entirely sure he'd be given the same leniency.
    - mathattack 13y ago
      Maybe he'll get to meet with some of his old "friends" there?
clarky07 13y ago
At 63, 28 years is very likely to be a life sentence. If he makes it, he'll be 91 when he gets out.
- WalterSear 13y ago
  Still too soon.
- robertfw 13y ago
  He'll probably serve a fraction of that :(
  - rdl 13y ago
    Yeah, he'll probably die sometime before the end of the sentence. I'm mostly ok with that. (It's going to be really weird if life extension tech becomes pervasive, and can't be denied to inmates. People who were sent away for 200-300 years, thinking that would be "well more than life" might end up released after...200-300 years in prison. That's going to be...interesting.)
    - mathattack 13y ago
      Imagine what 200-300 years in prison will do to someone. Would they be totally serene, or completely psychotic? The cost of prison goes up dramatically if people are there for hundreds of years. I think society might reconsider the death penalty. (In addition to moral reasons, one decision for not pursuing the death penalty is the cost - the cases drag on for so long that it's usually cheaper to put someone in jail for life.)
      - rdl 13y ago
        I still think the most moral "terminal" punishment is some form of exile. I wonder if by the time we have 500-1000+ year lifespan, we'd also have some form of exile available (long slow trips to far away parts of the solar system?). I think this has been the theme of lots of sci fi.

andrewmunsell 13y ago

Considering his age, he'll likely be in prison for the majority of the rest of his life (if not the entirety of it).

viggity 13y ago
for non-violent offenses, with good behavior you typically only serve 30-40% of your sentence (at least in iowa, my wife is a social worker and deals with people in the system).
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- agwa 13y ago
  He was convicted in federal court, and in the federal system there's no parole and only very limited credit for good behavior. He'll serve at least 87.1% of his sentence[1] (barring unlikely events such as a successful SCOTUS appeal or a pardon). Most likely he'll die in prison -- old prisoners age quite quickly. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time
- YokoZar 13y ago
  That's because the prison system is overcrowded, in part because of the judge in question, so I'm not entirely sure he'd be given the same leniency.
  - mathattack 13y ago
    Maybe he'll get to meet with some of his old "friends" there?

clarky07 13y ago

At 63, 28 years is very likely to be a life sentence. If he makes it, he'll be 91 when he gets out.

WalterSear 13y ago
Still too soon.
robertfw 13y ago
He'll probably serve a fraction of that :(
- rdl 13y ago
  Yeah, he'll probably die sometime before the end of the sentence. I'm mostly ok with that. (It's going to be really weird if life extension tech becomes pervasive, and can't be denied to inmates. People who were sent away for 200-300 years, thinking that would be "well more than life" might end up released after...200-300 years in prison. That's going to be...interesting.)
  - mathattack 13y ago
    Imagine what 200-300 years in prison will do to someone. Would they be totally serene, or completely psychotic? The cost of prison goes up dramatically if people are there for hundreds of years. I think society might reconsider the death penalty. (In addition to moral reasons, one decision for not pursuing the death penalty is the cost - the cases drag on for so long that it's usually cheaper to put someone in jail for life.)
    - rdl 13y ago
      I still think the most moral "terminal" punishment is some form of exile. I wonder if by the time we have 500-1000+ year lifespan, we'd also have some form of exile available (long slow trips to far away parts of the solar system?). I think this has been the theme of lots of sci fi.