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Quote by: Zhavric We're not criminalizing issues that are already crimes. We're addressing issues in our society that need to be addressed.
You tell me: are these two acts the same crime:
A man assaults you and takes your wallet because he's desperate to feed his family.
A man assaults you and takes your wallet because you looked at him funny.
They're both crimes. They're both punishable, but the second one will get you a couple more years in prison over the first.
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How can you say that one crime above will result in a longer prison sentence? This simply may not be true. In some states juries decide penalties. In others, judges decide penalties, all according to the law. Then there is the three strikes law, another brilliant legislative wonder. Judges are FORCED to sentence criminals to mandatory sentences even though the crime may be petty in nature but the criminal is a recidivist.
So you are saying the law says you get less time for robbery because in your defense you say you did it for your family? What if your family is "The Family"? You know "Our Thing" this Cosa Nostra.
Nope... Robbery is robbery and to appeal to a jury or a judge because a guy's family needs my money through robbery, is not very good law. It is a two tiered system which we seem to have already, one for the rich and one for the poor. So now we should have one system for the desperate and one for the goon. I yi yi.. Where does it stop?