Same county that handed down a 40 year sentence for selling a third of a gram of cocaine.
Why am I not surprised.
Actually I am surprised. I'd have figured more.
I won't ask you're opinion since you work in that office, but I think we do have to consider at what point do punishments simply become so counterproductive to rehabilitation that we might as well just cut off hands.
I don't think the jury had the slightest bit of interest in rehabilitating this defendant. Neither of these cases involved first time offenders or second time offenders or even third time offenders.
I probably should have said I wasn't asking because I just wouldn't think it proper to ask you to potentially make a statement not supportive of what the office has achieved.
I also have (and had) no doubt these were never first time offenders. My statement is more to what the State has deemed appropriate punishment possibilities. Simply a bit of dismay that the earlier (40 year) sentence is possible.
I'm not one who thinks prison is more about rehabilitation than punishment, only that it should still be a concern. At what point are we simply giving up on a person and saying lets just go to pure punishment at this point, even to working against any possible rehabilitation.
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Same county that handed down a 40 year sentence for selling a third of a gram of cocaine.
Why am I not surprised.
Actually I am surprised. I'd have figured more.
I won't ask you're opinion since you work in that office, but I think we do have to consider at what point do punishments simply become so counterproductive to rehabilitation that we might as well just cut off hands.
I don't think the jury had the slightest bit of interest in rehabilitating this defendant. Neither of these cases involved first time offenders or second time offenders or even third time offenders.
I probably should have said I wasn't asking because I just wouldn't think it proper to ask you to potentially make a statement not supportive of what the office has achieved.
I also have (and had) no doubt these were never first time offenders. My statement is more to what the State has deemed appropriate punishment possibilities. Simply a bit of dismay that the earlier (40 year) sentence is possible.
I'm not one who thinks prison is more about rehabilitation than punishment, only that it should still be a concern. At what point are we simply giving up on a person and saying lets just go to pure punishment at this point, even to working against any possible rehabilitation.
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