Hacker Who Helped Expose Steubenville Could Get More Prison Time Than Rapists
An informative read if you're curious about US sentencing: <a href="http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-eleventy-million-years&#x2F" rel="nofollow">http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence...</a>;<p>excerpt: <i>"People reporting on federal criminal justice — whether journalists or bloggers — routinely report on the statutory maximum sentence that a defendant could hypothetically get, an oft-ridiculous figure calculated by taking all the charged crimes and adding up the maximum punishment for each. This is usually followed by some sort of pronouncement that THIS PERSON CHARGED OF MINOR CRIMES FACES MORE JAIL TIME THAN YOU'D GET IF YOU BEAT A TODDLER TO DEATH WITH AN UNCONSCIOUS NUN WHILE RAPING A BLIND LIBRARIAN, or words to that effect."</i>