The attorney general has referred the case to the court of appeals for resentencing, so the politicians seem to think that there’s been some kind of fuckup applying the sentencing guidelines that politicians set. It’s news because this isn’t normal, and the mechanisms to resolve it are in motion. They’ll probably take years to sort it out, as the justice system is incredibly slow and wildly overwhelmed after over a decade of funding cuts and policy decisions that force people to resort to crime, but in 2040 or whenever they get around to it, the decision is almost certainly going to be that the judge made a mistake.
The attorney general has referred the case to the court of appeals for resentencing, so the politicians seem to think that there’s been some kind of fuckup applying the sentencing guidelines that politicians set. It’s news because this isn’t normal, and the mechanisms to resolve it are in motion. They’ll probably take years to sort it out, as the justice system is incredibly slow and wildly overwhelmed after over a decade of funding cuts and policy decisions that force people to resort to crime, but in 2040 or whenever they get around to it, the decision is almost certainly going to be that the judge made a mistake.
What are you talking about? This is so normal. The most normal. Rapists do not generally get punished.
That was a different case.