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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Likely some circumstances that resulted in a lesser sentence than someone else may have received.
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I cannot say with any certainty that that was not the case. Both were plea deals.
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Originally Posted by speeder
Yeah, that's news to me. Ive always heard that bank robbery is a 10 year sentence and not much flexibility for judges w sentencing guidelines. Federal parole policy must have changed dramatically since my dad was trying cases, he's the one who told me about the 85% rule, IIRC.  |
Like I said above, both were plea deals. They were, however, from probably half a dozen counts each time down to just a couple or three, remaining "bank robbery" both times and "armed" the second time.
I would not be surprised, with our over-populated prisons and over-taxed legal systems, that we have significantly softened on this kind of thing since your old man's time. I'm sure he was absolutely right, at the time he was practicing. We should go back, in many ways, to his time...