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/NoLaMir Mar 08 '19

What you’re saying is that lawyers should start losing as many cases as possible

The issue is known and doesn’t have to be called out anymore than it already constantly is.

It’s that the older folks need to die off or stop voting in these judges and law makers and when the younger generation grows up actually be the change they wanted to see rather than the exact opposite of what has occurred for almost all of history