Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases

Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by bmelton on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:00PM (#6831467)

Completely agreed. I think a workable compromise would be to sentence her to 3-5 years for each count -- or even, hell, let's be generous... 1 day for each count of tampering.

That's 40,000 counts, 1 day per, continuous -- 109 years and change.

Those entrusted with protecting the law should have far more obligation to uphold its tenets than the hoi polloi, lest we start conceding that there really are two classes of citizenry and start a class war.

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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by rpenm on Monday December 02, 2013 @12:38PM (#6835087)

I think we should be more worried that this is a systemic problem and not a single bad actor. There is something wrong with a system that is so vulnerable to this type of manipulation.

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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by atmosx on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:12AM (#6833188)

isn't it weird that that the numbers of years is 109? A whole number? Which also happens to be a prime.

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Re:Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases by bmelton on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:25AM (#6833218)

It wasn't a whole number, I rounded. Actually, I rounded twice, because it was actually like ~36,000-something occurrences, which I rounded off to 40 because I'm very lazy.

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