Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:11PM
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Happens quite frequently from what I'm told. Judges have quite a bit of discretion sometimes and try to sentence intelligently.
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I used to know someone who was an addict. Judge gave her the choice of going on probation for a year, or 45 days in jail. The catch was if she took the probation offer but was picked up for drug offenses in that time, it was an immediate sentence of a year in jail.
She took the 45 days. Better the devil you know than the one you can't control!
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[anecdote] I used to know someone who was an addict. Judge gave her the choice of going on probation for a year, or 45 days in jail. The catch was if she took the probation offer but was picked up for drug offenses in that time, it was an immediate sentence of a year in jail.
She took the 45 days. Better the devil you know than the one you can't control! [/anecdote]