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Originally Posted by ReformedDave
Not a sarcastic question. What is your basis for deeming punishment as excessive?
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Fair question
Dave my basis is being involved in literally thousands of criminal cases.
If your question was what is excessive: Life in prison for multiple convictions of drug USE. Once again use not dealing. (And never once any attempt at rehab, not even ordering NA meetings in jail)
I once had two cases in the same week. One boy sold powered sugar, the other told a police officer he wanted to sell him forty kilos. In Texas the first is sale of a simulated substance punishable by a maximum of two years, but mandatory probation on first offense. The other considered constructive delivery was punishable by up to life in prison even though the state never proved (nor had to) that any drugs actually existed! But wasn't it virtually the same crime?
In California it is possible to get life in prison for a series of bad checks.
And yes on the other end there are ridiculously light sentences as well.
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