Pudpop wrote:Nuggets wrote:Pudpop wrote:Can't tell if you guys are trolling or not. Our legal system doesn't give life imprisonment for 1st degree murder, nor should it.
Why not? do the crime do the time, too many tree huggers in out legal system.
Our minimum sentence for murder is 15 years, but since OP is a first time offender + has been ruled to be unlikely to do it again 15 becomes a maximum. The 9 years taken off is due to mitigating factors, some of which even I disagree with. 10 years would have been better, maybe even 12.
Also, for whoever asked, this is a fresh sentence. He has to serve 6 years, but will probably be out on parole after 2.
"Our minimum sentence for murder is 15 years" .... except of course the word minimum is meaningless in a Country where corruption, fame, privilege can get you away with almost anything .... joke of a legal system ....