Re:Mothers Are the Unsung Heroes of Prison
by luckylion on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:16PM
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> That seems very wrong to me, the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" should extend to sentencing
That's quite impossible, isn't it? Motives regularly play a role in sentencing and you cannot prove those, only deeds. You can believe it to be very likely that somebody did X because of Y and not because of Z, but you can't prove it.
That's quite impossible, isn't it? Motives regularly play a role in sentencing and you cannot prove those, only deeds. You can believe it to be very likely that somebody did X because of Y and not because of Z, but you can't prove it.