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Fightdirecto -> Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 12:10:17 PM)

Steal $100 -

Steal $3,000,000,000 -

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kalikshama -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 12:29:32 PM)

And some people say this country isn't racist and classist...



popeye1250 -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 12:40:53 PM)

I think it was last year or so here a judge gave a guy 27 years for burglary.
They don't cotton to burglary down south here I guess!
P.S. that guy who stole $3 billion should have gotten life.



Aylee -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 2:24:03 PM)

The $100 guy used the threat of a weapon. I am guessing that is what the difference is.



kdsub -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 2:44:05 PM)

Just wondering….what if it were your child behind the banks counter with a gun pointed at them? If it were mine I’d want him to serve the time.

Yes it turned out he did not have a gun but they did not know that… he is right where he belongs.

Comparing crimes does not work in this case because Brown rightly deserved the sentence. Now I’m sure with good behavior and a taxpayer detox program he will be out in a few years.

I agree white collar crime needs stronger penalties but money is one thing and threatening some ones life is another.

Butch



DomKen -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 2:46:13 PM)

The answer is not to make the guy who stole $100 sentence shorter but to make the sentence of the guy who stole $3 billion longer, much much longer.



mastrcmmdr -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 2:51:53 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: DomKen

The answer is not to make the guy who stole $100 sentence shorter but to make the sentence of the guy who stole $3 billion longer, much much longer.


or both



tolovetolaugh -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 3:38:47 PM)

The guy turned himself in. I do not in anyway feel he deserved his sentence. He was harmless and hungry, and reading it made me want to go find and feed the guy.



FirstQuaker -> RE: Comparative sentencing in U.S. Courts (10/20/2011 4:09:40 PM)

I have to agree with the Chinese and Russians on punishing major economic criminals

When you add up how many lifetimes of work the average US citizen would have to do to produce 3 billion dollars worth of value,  he would have had to kill several hundred people, at least accomplish a similar amount of damage to society.



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