Posted on 12/10/2007 9:43:43 AM PST by Gopher Broke
Just because someone gets off or skates on a serious crime doesn’t mean we should change the sentence of someone who does something horrible but not deeemed as horrible as those who got away with it. That is not justice. That is just making another bad decision and justifying it by prior bad decisions.
Sorry, I have to completely disagree with you. That kind of logic is how we get such lenient sentences and lax enforcement of the law - legal relativism/excuses.
Love the 'these are property, not humans' idea. Let's go steal that dudes property, and see how happy he is when (really if) we get caught that our punishment is cleaning poop in the park, and not prison. Weak.
i didn’t say change it i just said it was hypocritical
It is not hypocritical. One court’s failure to punish someone sufficiently (and failing to deliver proper justice) has nothing to do with another separate court’s decision to punish someone properly and give a just sentence.
The first court in your example got it wrong. The second court in your example got it right. One court getting a sentence wrong and another court getting a sentence right is not hypocrisy. It shows the flaws in our human justice system. If it were the same court and same judge I may agree with you that that would be hypocritical.
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