[Trump.Deplorable]

10 years for murder?

Jeez, people get longer sentences for bank fraud

[1L]

It wasn’t murder. This is going to be one of the fastest cases overturned on appeal ever. There’s a fair chance she won’t even face a retrial. The sad part is I don’t think the judge will let her out on bail pending appeal.

[Buckeye McFrog]

10 years for murder? Jeez, people get longer sentences for bank fraud

That is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. There are a whole lot of people doing more time for stupid crimes than you are likely to do for taking a human life. The law's #1 priority MUST be the protection of human life.

Started to irk me when Pennsylvania passed a law mandating longer sentences for killing a police DOG (which is often more than you'd get for manslaughter).

[Verginius Rufus]

Dan White got something like 9 years for killing two people--Harvey Milk and George Moscone (Mayor of San Francisco), but there were extenuating circumstances. He had been eating Twinkies.

In retrospect his sentence should have been longer for giving Diane Feinstein's career its big opportunity (she became mayor after Moscone's death).