Stuart Taylor, Jr., on draconian sentencing at both ends of the criminal justice system, from white-collar prosecutions to drug offenses (“Irrational Sentencing, Top To Bottom”, The Atlantic, Feb. 12 temporary link).
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I certainly agree with on of th author’s points… most of the sentences in question shoudl deinitely not be worse than the sentence for murder.
Of course, the real problem is that murder gets such a light sentence!
Should some of those cases get lower sentences? I’m open to the possibility.
But arguing th point in camparison to murder only shows how easy the average murderer gets off. (And it’s just horrendously worse in Europe).
“Skilling spent more than $40 million on lawyers” – sounds like Skillings wasn’t the only criminal at his table in court.
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