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Originally Posted by crockett
It's the way the lovely US justice system works.. If you rape some one you are probably just raping one person. Sure they will toss in some other charges each with their own jail time, however he was changed 6 times with extortion and 21 times with identity theft.
All those charges are each their own charge when it comes to sentencing. It's been like this every since they figured out they could get Capone on income tax evasion rather than racketeering. The DOJ is allowed to stack charges on top of each other and if found guilty each charge gets a min prison term. It's not a system which is meant to serve justice anymore but a system meant to get plea bargains or convictions.
It's actually a fucked up way to do it, but the DOJ isn't concerned about guilt or innocence but rather if they can get you on "something". If the DOJ brings a case to trial and they don't get a conviction it's bad on their record and looked at not as justice served but rather a "loss".
I'm sure he was guilty but yes I agree it fucking way excessive and ridiculous that rapist can get less time in many cases.
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Hogwash.
Each count is a separate crime committed at a separate time on a separate victim.
He could have stopped after one victim; but the fact that he continued showed he had no remorse.
He stacked his own charges all by himself.
Bottom line : If we took porn out of the story and just considered the convictions, nobody here would think anything was excessive.
People here are really defending porn.
But his operation was exactly what all legit producers don't want in porn;
free distribution of unlicensed content.