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Posted on 04/30/2010 12:49:09 PM PDT by rhema
20 years for obstruction = parking ticket because he is a Crat.
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I think that's a reasonable bet - someplace between 6-18 months of actual prison time.
OTOH, this was committed during a Presidential election. The judge might want to send a message. Plus, federal probation is NOT a walk in the park.
True...but I do like the “decent” remark.
How long till Obama pardons him?
I would have to look at the guidelines to be sure, but I believe he's in the first zone (A), which means the judge would have the flexibility to sentence him to federal probation, only.
My only caveat is I think there's an enhancement for obstruction, which might bump him to the next level inside that zone, which could mean mandatory prison time.
There were two charges with a max of 20 years. Convicted on one.
Hardly conviction on "none of the major charges."
The actual sentence depends on the "guidelines," which are very complicated, and are lower if you have no criminal record, but are usually somewhat proportional to the max. Then the judge now has a good bit more discretion than a few years ago, but still usually somewhere in the guideline range. We'll see.
Why are you guys saying no jail time. Someone at C4P said the judge was appointed by GWB and also didn’t this Judge strike down a request of some sort by the defence?
Plus this was an adult hacking into the VP nominee of the Republicans during an election and posting the password for the whole world to see.
Bull****. The harassment came about by posting Gov Palin's email login info on a hacker site. He knew what would happen.
Both of the articles put palin’s name in the headline, NOT the perp, and he’s the one who was convicted of a crime. Expose his name. He’s a DNC brownshirt who hacked a candidate’s email to snoop during an election.
If it had been Obama, there wouldn’t have been a deadlock. He’d be gone.
Billy Dee Willims never looked so bad.
I heard he was sentenced to 20 hours of community service with ACORN.
I could well be wrong but those notations have *got* to be add-on sentences *after* release from prison.How in God's name can you have a crime that has a max of 20 years and $250K and has a minimum of 5 years probation??? That's like saying that the max for murder 1 is death and the minimum is 10 years probation.
Jury prestty much got it right on this case.
Wire fraud was a non-starter from the get-go. ID threft charge is a real stretch, too.
On the obstruction of justice; just one more instance when the smart thing to do is never talk to the cops.
Best advice is to not hack into someone’s email.
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I agree with the one year in prision but I don’t see how he will get only 5 years supervised when 2 of the charges mandate 5 and 3 years supervied release?That comes to 8 years supervised and IMHO if they do retrail for identy theft he is most likely to be found guilty because of the other two prior convictions. IMHO he will be be sentaenced to 5-15 years and let out after 12 months to 18 months. If found guilty of the other charge he is liable to do 3 years before being released.
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