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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (6562)	1/29/2002 1:49:30 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

>> We may just disagree on this one. << Hmmmm...I can see you need some serious convincing. You're a hard man to persuade. Maybe another approach.. :)

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (6562)	1/29/2002 2:13:07 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 14610

The question is "what is appropriate?". The question is answered by sentencing guidelines. Junta was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The standard sentence for that crime is 3-5. The judge can opt for anything in that range and he can also deviate from that if he has a really, really good reason. The reason he gave was that the killing was done at a hockey rink in front of kids. Does that warrant doubling the recommended sentence for the crime or not? That is the only question. Arguing that he deserves 20 years because he was a big guy or because the victim is dead is outside our judicial system. Who was the aggressor, who was bigger, who was on the right side of the dispute--all those factors are already incorporated in the 3-5 sentence that goes with the guilty verdict for that particular crime. It's a given, part of the package attached to the verdict, unless we want to invalidate the jury verdict or change the sentencing guidelines. I can understand why some might want to hang the guy, but that's not how our system works. We're supposed to be fair, which, in our system, means having a jury decide guilt and then sentencing consistently via sentencing standards. Them's the rules. If people think that this warrants a longer sentence, then what we need are stiffer sentencing guidelines or a different definition of involuntary manslaughter, not to deviate from the system because this case got a lot of attention. Karen