sentencing issues

It was always going to be USA, wasn't it? To me, this is on par with 1000 lashes for blogging. Jennifer Fichter: sentenced to 22 years for having sex with three school pupils. Where are the victims? 22 years? In almost all of the rest of the world, 16 is deemed old enough to consent to sex...

You know the format by now. No googling. If you already know the outcomes, please use spoilers if you want to discuss the sentences. Case A Two greedy RBS bankers used their jobs to run £3million property fraud. Andrew Ratnage, 50, and his boss Raymond Pask, 54, guilty of scam Pair set...

Case A What do you think of this one reported by the Daily Mail Anybody want to guess this sentence? The victim's hand looked like this Answer: Case B Just to have a second case to talk about, there is also this one in the Mail Comparator - a solicitor I know got 4 1/2 years for...

There is a thread in general terms discussing sentencing for this case - from what I've read (admittedly nothing more the newspaper reports) it does seem quite a harsh sentence. A quick summary - Max Clifford, powerful PR man to the stars for decades has been found guilty of sexual assault -...

Two cases for forum members to pass sentence on. This one is not for Brits unless by some chance you missed the headlines. Case A - 71 year old, very successful and well-known PR man and publicist convicted on 8 counts of sexual assault committed between 1966 and the early 80s. Youngest...

Is this an example of the best justice system money can buy ? http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2014/03/28/sunday-preview-du-pont-heir-stayed-prison/7016769/

Three new cases on which to decide the sentence. All come from today's paper. Please guess before googling and please also refrain from publishing the actual outcomes for a page or two: Case A Graffiti - respectable 30 something surveyor convicted of an extended campaign of defacing...

Here are three recent cases from the UK. I want you to pass sentence. No googling to look up what each defendant actually got. Case A Two businessmen perpetrated a series of mortgage frauds worth £750M (yes, million). Case B A guy twice drove his Range Rover up mount Snowdon (Wales's...

Do you think our justice system should institute mandatory sentencing guidelines where judges have no discretion at all? (but perhaps a lowering of the sentences themselves and they take into account prior criminal activity) Or do you like the present system that has a min and a max sentence...

An interesting story of marital breakdown, alleged lying to avoid losing a driving license and the potential end of a political career... http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/03/chris-huhne?intcmp=239 I was reading in another piece that there is precedent for this - and a lorry driver...

Short segment on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning about the fact that the US criminal justice system is unique among "civilized" nations for sentencing juvenile offenders to "life without the possibility of parole". They profiled a young woman (now 34) who was sentenced at 16 under the felony...