Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Why bother
Why bother going through a trial at all, when all you get for murdering your baby is a suspended sentence. It seems the younger and more helpless you are in society, the less value is placed on your life.
...sparing Cao jail and sentencing her to two years less a day to be served in the community. “At the same time, it seems to me, a reasonable and informed person would understand that no useful purpose would be served by a sentence of actual incarceration.”
A reasonable and informed person may believe, learned judge, that jail time might actually serve as punishment, and additionally, a deterrant. Remember those sentencing concepts? Didn’t think so.
UPDATE: LIB has a comment on this (scroll to the middle)






