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spider32
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14/M/Over There,
Join Date: Apr 2008 | jonnythan said:
DWIs? Not so much.
Murderers? They get more than 3 years.
Yeah, but the laws here suck. A bleeding heart judge (and these judges are all over the place) will sentence a murderer with a sentence so light it's more of a reward than a punishment. Just the other day a guy on the radio was talking about this and he said "a judge could sentence a guy to live in Albuquerque for three years" and the criminal said, "thanls judge".
And then, a few years back a guy had been caught for DWI twenty times. And he was still on the streets. They should've sent him to jail after about the third time.
So, what I'm trying to say is that I wish the laws everywhere were more fair and that murderers and rapists should get sentenced longer than a guy who didn't pay taxes.
In this case, Wesley Snipes sentence was way too much. I would've give him about six months or a year and then make extra sure he paid he taxes after that. But they're going to take everything away from him to make up for what he paid for and send him to prison.
I wish murderers, rapists, and DWI's were dealt with as harshly, but then (most) judges are so corrupt they won't do what should be done. |  | | Edited: April 26, 2008 @ 01:23 |  |
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lilbear
Monk
34770 points
108/F/, Canada
Join Date: Jan 2008 | spider32 said:
Yeah, but the laws here (in Albuquerque) suck. A bleeding heart judge (and these judges are all over the place) will sentence a murderer with a sentence so light it's more of a reward than a punishment. Just the other day a guy on the radio was talking about this and he said "a judge could sentence a guy to live in Albuquerque for three years" and the criminal said, "thanls judge".
And then, a few years back a guy had been caught for DWI twenty times. And he was still on the streets. They should've sent him to jail after about the third time.
So, what I'm trying to say is that I wish the laws everywhere were more fair and that murderers and rapists should get sentenced longer than a guy who didn't pay taxes.
In this case, Wesley Snipes sentence was way too much. I would've give him about six months or a year and then make extra sure he paid he taxes after that. But they're going to take everything away from him to make up for what he paid for and send him to prison.
I wish murderers, rapists, and DWI's were dealt with as harshly, but then (most) judges are so corrupt they won't do what should be done.
What the hell is a DWI? I've heard of DUI's [ Driving Under Influence] but DWI 
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jonnythan
Pickle
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27/M/NY, New York
Join Date: Aug 2005 | spider32 said:
Yeah, but the laws here (in Albuquerque) suck. A bleeding heart judge (and these judges are all over the place) will sentence a murderer with a sentence so light it's more of a reward than a punishment. Just the other day a guy on the radio was talking about this and he said "a judge could sentence a guy to live in Albuquerque for three years" and the criminal said, "thanls judge".
And then, a few years back a guy had been caught for DWI twenty times. And he was still on the streets. They should've sent him to jail after about the third time.
So, what I'm trying to say is that I wish the laws everywhere were more fair and that murderers and rapists should get sentenced longer than a guy who didn't pay taxes.
In this case, Wesley Snipes sentence was way too much. I would've give him about six months or a year and then make extra sure he paid he taxes after that. But they're going to take everything away from him to make up for what he paid for and send him to prison.
I wish murderers, rapists, and DWI's were dealt with as harshly, but then (most) judges are so corrupt they won't do what should be done.
The things you hear on the TV or radio about sentences that criminals get are often not quite accurate... and, even when they are, they are the rare exception to what's normal. That's why it makes it onto the news in the first place.
You'll never see a headline that says "Convict gets pretty much exactly the sentence that everyone thinks he should get." No one would buy that paper. But the headline "Multiple-DUI convict goes home!" sells a lot of papers.
The point is that the view of the justice system that you get by noticing headlines is incredibly skewed. It's so skewed that making any judgment about the justice system using it is going to be wildly incorrect.
If you want real information about incarceration rates, average sentences, etc, do some actual research. The stuff you hear on the radio and see in the papers is not reality.
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Apr 25, 2008 @ 23:56:32
He'll be out in a third of said sentence on good behavior if he behaves, and possibly earlier. 
