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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'm just thinking..that every time I turn around they are throwing the book at everybody for every damn thing. lol
I rarely see a judge use any discretion in the cases I see on the news...well, except when they want to present the story as a "shocking" case of an inept Judge.
Plus they change the damn definitions of stuff too. When they are arresting 21 year old guys for having sex with their 16 year old girlfriends and calling it the same thing as a guy raping a baby, it gets hard to differentiate.
Anyway...I think the guy got what was coming to him in this case. And probably had a good lawyer to get off as light as he did. He outright STOLE that film and tried to damage the studio by releasing it for free.
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Yeah, it seems like - at least for me - most of the stories I see or hear about are just the opposite and it is people getting crazy sentences for stupid shit like a guy getting 5 years for stealing a sandwich or the case where the guy was 17 and had sex with a 15 year old at a party and got 10 year for it even though she was the aggressor.
From my own experience I had my identity stolen a few years back and the guy that did it had two prior felony convictions. One for identity theft and one for assault. He also had a warrant for domestic violence for beating the hell out of his girlfriend. When they caught him the prosecutor cute him a deal. Instead of trying two cases (the domestic/assault and identity theft) he pleaded guilty to the assault charges and they let him off with much lighter stuff on the identity theft charges. He got 9 months. So a guy with 4 felony convictions ended up serving just 9 months. However, they did this to make sure he had 2 felony convictions that were violent crimes. This way if he does it again it is part of the three strikes rule and he goes away for at least 25 years.