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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by cstross on Sunday December 01, 2013 @06:09PM (#6829891)
I don't know how Massachusetts law -- or US Federal law -- swings, but here in the UK there's a specific crime, magnificently called Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice, which covers everything from perjury to faking evidence. And while the average sentence is on the order of 2 years, there's no upper limit: a life sentence is possible in sufficiently extreme cases.
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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by judk on Sunday December 01, 2013 @06:23PM (#6829970)
With 40k counts here, it can be a matter of deciding whether the sentences --no matter how light--should be served concurrently or sequentially.
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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by FBT on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:41AM (#6833257)
How does one serve multiple jail terms concurrently? The whole idea makes no sense.
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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by hmottestad on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:50AM (#6833577)
If you define a jail cell to be in two different jails at the same time then you can serve two sentences in two jails at the same time :)
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