Posted on 12/07/2017 7:30:08 PM PST by hapnHal
I still believe that we copied one of the worst justice systems ever from the British. Their own native son, Charles Dickens, said it best: “ The law is an ass”.
15 years for that is ridiculous.
He must have had very poor representation.
It just makes me wonder if some guy somewhere, is going to decide he has had all he can take, and have a “falling down” moment?
“Fifteen years for vandalism with bacon? That’s absurd. No person was physically injured.”
It was a hate crime. That makes it bad. May have even been some zero tolerance mandatory sentence nonsense.
that is ugly...plus no-one died from bacon, and bacon guy was white, ok bacon guy got it easy.
I think any crime that results in injury is a hate crime. But insulting someone should not be a crime. The only crime I see there is vandalism, breaking and entering.
If he used the good smoked thick-sliced kind, the guy should face a firing squad!
Enemies of the Deep State get punished in accordance with their crimes against liberal ideology.
Rick Scott needs to commute the sentence ASAP.
Florida has detailed sentencing guidelines that limit judicial discretion in sentencing. My guess is that the bacon vandalism defendant got a heavy sentence because of a substantial score for prior offenses.
I think using bacon as a statement is merely exercising his free speech. He needed a different lawyer.
Hope Trump pardons.
Because the act of baconizing was premeditated? /sarc
Steinle killers past not allowed in trial but it would have in sentencing as it did in bacon in mosque case
Bacon man got hammered at sentencing for the past
Had Steinle killer been convicted his past too woulda come up
The Feds weigh past history at sentencing via guidelines pretty heavy upon conviction or plea
Steinle’s killer was convicted of a couple of charges and his past record had no influence on his sentencing.
You lamented his past history wasn’t brought up in his trial
It rarely is in anyone’s
The bacon guy had his history brought up at sentencing not trial
At rape trials lawyers have tried past history like she was a whore etc
It is almost always not allowed...it’s called character evidence
Trial evidence should usually only be about that specific charge .....this notion is actually a concept of free people’s even though you understandably didn’t like that it didn’t come up but if you allow character evidence at trial then it’s a very slippery slope to exploitation by political district attorneys
Here is a brief explanation from SIM
http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/character-as-evidence.html
And to be of further help I’ll ping a lawyer who can say it better than a car wash owner
Yes. That’s how it works. There is no fairness. “Hate crimes” are considered the worst crime of all. Murder by government-certified specially-privileged victim group members is treated as no crime at all.
Nah. We have values. Leave it to God. When he gets them, they won’t have a clue as to what or how it happened.
Unless he broke probation, I don’t think you can punish him for time served...with more time for a new crime.
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