[gogeo]

The operative word, of course, is "Law." Judges are not kings. There was no finding that the punishment was cruel or unusual; the judge decided, in effect, that the law didn't make sense to him. That what liberals do.

Legislatures make laws, judges conduct trials and hand out sentences based upon law. The system for which you advocate sounds much more like Sharia than the one we have...and I support. Only under Sharia is a judge prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. We separate the functions.

If you don't like the law, change it...

[No Blue States]

Its amazing how the law is being ignored here when constantly I see threads complaining about judges legislating from the bench.

I guess it depends on the case?

[Millers Cave]

From the article: Judge Wilson agreed the 10-year prison sentence "would be viewed by society as 'cruel and unusual' in the Constitutional sense of disproportionality."

I don't think the judge was out of line at all.