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Originally posted by ChrisH
What did he deserve then?
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Other than stupidity I don't see that he committed any crime at all. The government threw those conspiracy charges at him not because they were sure they could win a conviction in front of an impartial jury, but because they knew there was no impartial jury, and that his lawyers would get him to take the 20 year plea rather than risk it.
Getting someone to plea to something they didn't do rather than risking conviction on more serious charges, false though they may be, is an all too common perversion of the Justice system.