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Norway suspect could be jailed beyond max sentence: Prosecutor
vancouversun.com ^ | July 24, 2011 | Peter O'Neil

Posted on 07/24/2011 7:39:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Anders Behring Breivik, who according to his lawyer has admitted his role in the mass murder of at least 93 people in an “atrocious … but necessary” act, could if found guilty be imprisoned beyond the country’s 21-year maximum sentence, according to a Norwegian prosecutor.

But to keep him in jail for the rest of his life, in the country’s famously comfortable prison system, would be unheard of in the peaceful, egalitarian country of five million people, said Carol Sandbye, a lawyer who works in Norway’s office of public prosecutions.

She said the country’s General Civil Penal Code gives the state prosecutor the right to seek an extension of sentences beyond the 21-year maximum for up to five years at a time, on the condition that the inmate is deemed to be a “high risk” of repeating serious offences.

Sandbye, who was fielding media calls at the Oslo Police District office Sunday, said it’s therefore technically possible to keep extending a sentence indefinitely.

“You can, but it’s highly unlikely,” she told Postmedia News in a telephone interview. “That would mean that person is going to spend his entire life in jail.”

Sandbye said that inmates in all “civilized countries” without the death penalty are eventually paroled.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: breivik; norway
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1 posted on 07/24/2011 7:39:34 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Norway has some serious structural problems ~ for one thing it's ceased being part of civilization.

You just don't let a mass murderer loose after 21 years ~ not prudent at all!

2 posted on 07/24/2011 7:41:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Berlin_Freeper

11 years on good behavior.

Imagine that happening


3 posted on 07/24/2011 7:42:34 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: muawiyah

What about the 93 Muslim rapists and murderers?


4 posted on 07/24/2011 7:43:33 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Typical prison cell in Norway.

Maybe one of the victims was from another country and that country can demand extradition and put the SOB in a real jail.

5 posted on 07/24/2011 7:44:10 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Berlin_Freeper

93 deaths - a tragedy.

100+ million of deaths - a statistic (source: Black Book of Communism.)


6 posted on 07/24/2011 7:45:03 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
How about a Rope with 13 turns in the Knot and 13 steps up to the Gallows floor? anything else is Bull-chit!
7 posted on 07/24/2011 7:45:08 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: mnehring

And that is without all the personal items.


8 posted on 07/24/2011 7:46:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper ("Don't Call My Bluff")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

So, Norway, how does it feel to be so “civilized” as to NOT have the Death Penalty?

Do you feel justice can possible prevail?

Or do you continue to pat yourselves on the back for being too high-minded to see the agony of 90+ of your citizenry who were killed in ruthless, indifferent and painful ways? And of course, the families of those — their pain is pretty meaningless compared to your EU self-importance. How many in pain — many for the rest of their lives? Hundreds? Thousands?

How’s that working for you?


9 posted on 07/24/2011 7:46:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

All liberal democracies favor their criminal element. He will get out, as except for the families of the victims, in twenty years most people will have forgotten about the crime having gone on to more interesting things such as eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, sport etc.


10 posted on 07/24/2011 7:47:10 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They can have computers, TVs, books, pretty much anything they want. They have gyms, gardens, parks, the works.


11 posted on 07/24/2011 7:47:19 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

>>Maybe one of the victims was from another country and that country can demand extradition and put the SOB in a real jail. <<

CRAP! That looks better than my dorm room in college!


12 posted on 07/24/2011 7:47:48 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Revolting cat!

Very true.


13 posted on 07/24/2011 7:51:43 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: mnehring

The save money on fences.


14 posted on 07/24/2011 7:53:02 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper ("Don't Call My Bluff")
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To: mnehring

They save money on fences.


15 posted on 07/24/2011 7:53:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper ("Don't Call My Bluff")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I look for some grieving father to attempt to assassinate the monster, ala Jack Ruby. What are they going to do if he succeeds? Give him 21 years? Some parents would consider it a good trade.


16 posted on 07/24/2011 7:55:34 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Revolting cat!

Who knows.


17 posted on 07/24/2011 7:57:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Sandbye said that inmates in all “civilized countries” without the death penalty are eventually paroled.

How do you say "eloi" in Norwegian

18 posted on 07/24/2011 8:01:08 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: Berlin_Freeper

who would want to leave


19 posted on 07/24/2011 8:19:03 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: mnehring

“Typical prison cell in Norway.”

Explains why the Muzzies don’t seem to fear committing crimes.


20 posted on 07/24/2011 8:19:46 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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