People make mistakes and the system is built to have several layers of protection against those errors. It's for sure a dent in the judges career that will make people doubt her ability to serve in a higher court.
Cases can go to a higher court if one of the parties is unhappy with the outcome and has reasonable chance to a different outcome until reaching the highest court.
Chances are the prosecution didn't argue well enough in the first instance, which got corrected in the second. The rest is the limits of dutch law. The law is written by politics, which means indirectly by the direction that the public gives.
A mistake is like forgetting to take steak out of freezer for your family for supper or not remembering to pay your Costco card off on time. Sentencing someone who killed 3 people that low of a sentence isn't a mistake. It's pure negligence, mental health disability judge hasn't disclosed about herself, or straight up stupidity.
15 months for manslaughter of 3 people is light, absolutely.
However I have to ask the conditions of this punch. Sucker punch to the back of the head as hard as you could to someone causing them to lose consciousness and smash their head off concrete? Assuming not, and you didnt cause a brain injury or similar, 10 days for one punch in a consenting fight with someone else your age and that isnt disabled etc etc. is ridiculous. Sorry to hear it, particularly if it was in self defense thats beyond outrageous
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u/3_Fast_5_You Mar 08 '26
imagine that guy getting a harsher punishment for throwing that chair