• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Firstly, fuck this person and everyone else involved.

    Secondly, she was a supportive witness that likely helped to get other convictions. She might be the reason that any money is recovered.

    Thirdly, if the sentence for a crime gets too high, murdering the people who can rat you out becomes the best strategy. Dead people don’t take the stand. It’s why certain awful crimes, like assaulting children, seem to have too light of a sentence.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      I’m sure you have statistics to back up your third point, and wouldn’t make such an extraordinary claim without the evidence to back it up… Care to provide?

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      9 hours ago

      That third paragraph is total bullshit, did you read it properly? it’s two years… Murder in the US is most likely a life sentence…

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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      16 hours ago

      It wouldn’t seem like too light of a sentence if other relatively minor crimes didn’t put poor people in prison for way longer. The solution is to reduce sentences for minor, especially victimless crimes to be in line with these, not the other way around.