Our judicial system punishes crimes involving the threat/use of violence much more seriously. Plus these are two different court systems trying two different crimes.
My picture. Traveled a bit and found a good spot for Amerika's 4th of July fireworks.
Yeah. Nobody got hurt, he didn't actually have a weapon, he turned himself in and he only got $100 anyway.Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
That surely warrants a 15 years sentence.
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Indeed, surely this why there are descretionary powers written into sentencing laws....so judges aren't forced to be fucking idiots.
Such is Life...
They didn't because there were hundreds of thousands of people lined-up by the highway. They needed the lights for crowd control I suppose. Plus the city is really always lit-up somehow.Nice.
They don't turn the street lights off for fireworks over there?
BTW, wrong photo thread
I don't think my photo was good enough to go into the "good" photo thread.
The amount and whether someone got hurt doesn't matter. You should know as well as anyone that the threat of violent force changes the sentencing game. I agree 15 years is stupid, but it's not hard to see how this guy got bumped-up into a different category of felony charges.
To the people whom he robbed and threatened to kill, it certainly wasn't the ho-hum case it looks like from our perspective.
Sure, but I also imagine that people in the $3 billion scheme lost a bit more than $100 each, and their lives have been affected worse than the person robbed.
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it's always great at the Zürifäscht (Zürich-Party) when they shut down all the public lights and all the lights of the funfair attractions for the fireworks. It would be funny if they would shur down private lights too
Fair enough, images of fireworks are a little bit pointless anyway IMOI don't think my photo was good enough to go into the "good" photo thread.
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Not shopped, that guy really is on fire
its all in the timing
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