Posted on 05/27/2010 9:00:19 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
Just watch. He’ll get off with a couple hundred hours of “community service”.
Are you serious? OK, what he did was illegal and he ought to be punished for it in an appropriate manner, but to want to have his life completely ruined and getting raped repeatedly in prison? That is seriously effed up. Only the vilest rapists and murderers deserve to have that happen to them.
Fortunately, I doubt it will come to that....
I guess you consider what he did to be trivially illegal then while I consider it an act of political sabotage in the most important part of the greatness of this country - the political process of selecting candidates for President and Vice President. Yes, I believe what he did was vile; he attempted to abet the subversion of the free elections process. If I were a criminal defense attorney, I’d consider you a sympathetic juror choice.
Based on the evidence, I’d vote to convict. But If I knew he was going to get 20 years, I might seriously consider not doing it. Of course, that is the problem you face with justice if the punishment is out of proportion with the crime. A lot of rapists and even some murderers get less than 20 years...
Based on the fact that he was clearly a political operative committing a crime in an attempt to influence an election, hard time in a medium security federal penitentiary is a fair sentence. Twenty years may be a little long, but fifteen would be about right, especially since he will be out on parole in five to seven years if he stays out of trouble while inside.
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