This disgusts me.
How do you guys feel about this? Any idea of what we can do to make this shit better?
Homeless man gets 15 years in jail for 100$, CEO gets 40 months for 3 Billion.
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This disgusts me.
How do you guys feel about this? Any idea of what we can do to make this shit better?
I'd be willing to bet repeat offender. Most times you see a sentence like this it's for a '3 strikes' rule.
It's cuz he's black isn't it?
I kid, thats really screwed up, if you put it in comparison, the CEO should be getting....well, a few thousand years. The homeless guy DID rob a bank, but he took about enough money to fill a Hummer's gas tank.
I kid, thats really screwed up, if you put it in comparison, the CEO should be getting....well, a few thousand years. The homeless guy DID rob a bank, but he took about enough money to fill a Hummer's gas tank.
well clearly the CEO had money. I bet you to add insult to injury, he got a TARP parachute too.
Besides, its not like this kinda shit happens only in the US.
Besides, its not like this kinda shit happens only in the US.
Different courts, different judges, different people issuing sentences.
Don't try to blame the guy condemning the homeless man because some other asshole was too lenient on a CEO. Blame him because he issued an overly harsh sentence for petty theft.
Don't try to blame the guy condemning the homeless man because some other asshole was too lenient on a CEO. Blame him because he issued an overly harsh sentence for petty theft.
You may be kidding, but that don't mean it ain't true. At least partially. And i'm not usually one to "cry 'racist'". (The judge, that is, not you.)vivalahelvig said:
Actually, though... it probably has more to do with how much money the respective defendants had to spend on their lawyers.
OT: Yeah, that's sickening.
*edit* I just realized, someone is sure to call me a racist because i am assuming that the CEO was white. Whatever. He probably was. Most are.
This may not be as cruel as people are thinking.
He is going to prison yes but it may be possible that the judge sent him there on such a sentance on sympathy.
I had a Local Magistrate as a Teacher in college he stated once how he had a hearing where a homeless man would commit a minor crime every Christmas and he would sent him to prison over the Christmas holiday, Why do this? The man was committing the crime because he wanted to go to prison where he had shelter and food available and the Magistrate obliged him so he didn't starve over Christmas.
It may be a similar circumstance he may be going to prison but for 15 years he is going to have clean clothes, shelter, food and medical care that he wouldn't have living on the street.
There are two sides to every story and sometimes sending a man to prison is a mercy that looks like a curse.
He is going to prison yes but it may be possible that the judge sent him there on such a sentance on sympathy.
I had a Local Magistrate as a Teacher in college he stated once how he had a hearing where a homeless man would commit a minor crime every Christmas and he would sent him to prison over the Christmas holiday, Why do this? The man was committing the crime because he wanted to go to prison where he had shelter and food available and the Magistrate obliged him so he didn't starve over Christmas.
It may be a similar circumstance he may be going to prison but for 15 years he is going to have clean clothes, shelter, food and medical care that he wouldn't have living on the street.
There are two sides to every story and sometimes sending a man to prison is a mercy that looks like a curse.
Technically, It can be considered assault. Why? Because he pretended to have a gun under his shirt. That invokes the same fear as a real gun, the same fear of death. That is why he got 15 years.
Now, I agree that the CEO got off light. It should have been 7-10 years, but the law is the law.
Now, I agree that the CEO got off light. It should have been 7-10 years, but the law is the law.
Not only is this a possibility but we don't really have any official source for this story. If you notice the 2nd Story has no paper or writer credit. And why when i search for this article can I find NOT A SINGLE NEWS ARTICLE. All twitter facebook and blogs. Quite frankly I'm not convinced this is even a true story.Fusioncode9 said:
This has been posted before
Anyways, I don't have much sympathy for criminals, at all. I do think the CEO should have gotten more time, but we don't know all the facts of the case.
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Anyways, I don't have much sympathy for criminals, at all. I do think the CEO should have gotten more time, but we don't know all the facts of the case.
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Yeh, come to think of it, I agree. FakeImprovizoR said:
Hm... the petty thief stole out of arguable necessity as he was trying hard to pick up his life but was having problems reversing his drug habit, the CEO had no such justification. The thief stole a sum of money smaller than what the CEO wipes his ass with, the CEO stole so much money that if you asked for it in singles you'd have to chop down over 3000 acres of forest for the bills. The thief had actually returned some of what he stole before making his getaway and only startled a teller, the CEO probably cost hundreds if not thousands of people their life savings and probably ruined several lives.
And to think, people say i'm full of shit when i say our criminal justice system is horrendously discriminatory and ineffective.
And to think, people say i'm full of shit when i say our criminal justice system is horrendously discriminatory and ineffective.
