American Justice

[sir.prize]

Judges in the USA really know how to dish it out.

http://uk.eurosport.y...x-125954831--nfl.html

[sandyRoe]

It's good to see the punishment fit the crime.

[emmie]

that is one off the streets then.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, well he is not a Catholic priest is he?

Still, good to see one piece of scum locked up. Now need a few thousand others.

[jake-the-peg]

They are a little odd though aren't they?

I mean

//Sandusky faced a much longer possible sentence of hundreds of years, but the judge said: "I am not going to sentence you to centuries in prison even though the law allows me to do that."//

[ludwig]

What's odd Jake, the fact you can be sentenced to hundreds of years, or the fact that this man wasn't?

[FredPuli43]

My thoughts exactly. What would he get if he'd gbh'd them as well? This bizarre sentencing practice of consecutives running into hundreds of years just looks ludicrous. Does he lose benefits if he gets centuries as against 30 to 60?!
But it's a tough sentence by British standards. Can't see an offender here getting a sentence of 'whole life' for those offences unless he'd killed one or two along the way.

[ludwig]

// This bizarre sentencing practice of consecutives running into hundreds of years just looks ludicrous //

Why? They look at the crimes, tally up the sentences and that's what it comes to. We all know he'll never live that long but that's beside the point.
That's the sentence he deserves in the court's judgement. It's a let off for him that he'll get out of serving the whole thing by dying.

It strikes me as less ludicrous than our own practice of giving someone a life sentence of 15 years.