Posted on 12/01/2006 10:31:44 AM PST by Z.Hobbs
In the meantime, consider the off-color joke about the old West where a man walks into the bar and sees a bunch of men sitting at the tables with *sheep*. He can't believe it, and begins complaining until someone takes him aside and explains that there just aren't enough women to go around.
So the man thinks, OK, I get it. He sidles up to the bar and starts putting the moves on an ewe sitting there.
Everyone else gasps in horror, and he blurts out, "Well, then, you're just a bunch of hypocrites then! Why can't I strike up a conversation with a sheep too?"
Someone quietly says, "But...that's the SHERIFF'S girl!"
Cheers!
I agree the sentence does not seem to fit the crime. Of course, it is in fact hard to believe that life plus six years would even be statutory for the crimes listed.
Of course keep in mind that Mn could have a habitual criminal statute, ie 3 strikes and you are out, as some states do? Other than that, I agree with you.
Hadn't heard that one...(sheepish grin)...
3 strikes is a possibility; the story didn't mention it, but the story wasn't especially informative, so you could be right.
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