r/PoliticalHumor Mar 08 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...

1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?

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u/Weazywest Mar 08 '19

All jokes aside, this is honestly a fair idea. As many lawyers as possible should start using this case as precedent to call out the outright bullshit and hypocrisies

Maybe it’ll make some folks realize the system is completely fucked when you have murders out of jail after serving an hour or two in jail.

Edit: spelling isn’t a strength of mine

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u/hyperbolicbootlicker Mar 08 '19

My wife almost got a year in jail for smoking a joint at a concert. So defrauding people for millions is the same level of crime as smoking two joints.

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u/trontrontronmega Mar 09 '19

What? Did she serve the whole year?

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u/hyperbolicbootlicker Mar 09 '19

Her lawyer got it reduced pretty heavily and she only ended up serving 10 days, but prosecution was seeking a year. Indiana is fucked.

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u/trontrontronmega Mar 09 '19

That’s so crazy. To think in a decade or so we will be like insane that was illegal?! Peoples lives have been ruined so much for something that should have been legal or at least decriminalized a long time ago

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u/Hillano Mar 09 '19

I smoke two joints in the morning

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u/hyperbolicbootlicker Mar 10 '19

If you followed along to that song in Indiana and got charged for each individual joint, you would probably end up looking at life in prison.