Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
by anigbrowl on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @06:32PM
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I saw all such specific statements yesterday, albeit from different people. In particular, the argument that he was facing life imprisonment because the maximum possible term for the offenses he was charged with totaled 35 years was widely repeated. The news media does this all the time because big numbers sound most impressive, but the maximum sentence is only sought and handed down in a small minority of criminal cases.
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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
by smsm42 on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @08:33PM
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The fact that is handed down rarely does not mean it was not threatened. And the reason why it handed down rarely may very well be that others plead out, because they were scared of that maximum sentence - which was exactly the problem in this case, that he did not want to accept the plea.