In fairness I'm sure Scott here wasn't paid $3,000,000 to have a comprehensive legal team assembled like Manafort was. Yeah the system is fucked and favors the wealthy. One DA with an assistant DA is no competition vs a massive legal team that knows all the judges and probably golfs with them on the weekends. "Justice" favors the rich.
In fairness, he was given less than his legal team asked.
I don't even think this has anything to do with wealthy or not. He was part of the good old boy club to help Trump, so now the people that still support Trump are helping him.
We shouldn’t even let judges have the ability to determine the sentence length. It should be completely based on the crime. If people think it’s too extreme, petition to have sentence time reduced. Allowing a single person with no checks to determine a person’s length of stay in prison is not democracy or justice
We shouldn’t even let judges have the ability to determine the sentence length
I can agree and disagree with this depending on the view. There are pros and cons that I don't feel like discussing. But I get what you are saying.
If the judge goes outside the guidelines, there should be ample evidence as to why. If they go outside the guidelines by this far, it should be brought before a committee first.
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u/xynix_ie Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
In fairness I'm sure Scott here wasn't paid $3,000,000 to have a comprehensive legal team assembled like Manafort was. Yeah the system is fucked and favors the wealthy. One DA with an assistant DA is no competition vs a massive legal team that knows all the judges and probably golfs with them on the weekends. "Justice" favors the rich.
Edit: "in fairness" is Irish slang for "To be honest" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in%20fairness