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uptown_gargoyle t1_iwrqayz wrote
It'd also be interesting to hear how many people she thinks are actually being rehabilitated in prisons.
PhillyPanda t1_iwrtgmh wrote
I mean you have this example
mrhedgefund t1_iwt03zg wrote
How is that an example? You're comparing the required resentencing of a juvenile lifer who already spent 40 years in jail to someone who got a slap on the wrist. My point is, is she going to give the exact same sentence for ALL first time offenders convicted of manslaughter? I seriously doubt a poor person with a public defender would receive the same leniency. "Voluntary Manslaughter where a deadly weapon was used is a minimum of 54 months and a maximum of 72 months."
Secondly
>Before his resentencing hearing in 2018, his lawyer had worked with the Philadelphia district attorney’s office to negotiate a 29-year-to-life sentence. The judge, however, disagreed. “I cannot discount two lives,” said Judge Barbara McDermott after rejecting the negotiated sentence. “I believe in proportionality in a sentence.” Her sentence, 35 to life, will make him eligible for parole at the age of 52.
But it's perfectly fine to "discount" the life of someone killed by a police officer?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/progressive-prosecutors-judges/589222/
PhillyPanda t1_iwt4ul1 wrote
I was saying she clearly dealt with someone who killed a police officer but had good behavior differently than a police officer who killed someone who had good behavior
mrhedgefund t1_iwt5oqm wrote
I see now, I was thinking you meant the opposite 🤦♂️
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markskull t1_iwqzu0c wrote
Good, we need more accountability when there's an officer-involved shooting!
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mrhedgefund t1_iwqxgxb wrote
>The penalty fell far below state sentencing guidelines for the voluntary manslaughter conviction that a jury handed Eric Ruch in September, in what prosecutors are calling the first conviction of an officer for an on-duty killing in recent city history. But in sentencing him, Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara McDermott said that Ruch, 34, had demonstrated good behavior since he was charged two years and she believed a longer sentence would not offer him any rehabilitation.
>”Nothing he is going to do in prison is going to make him a better person,” McDermott said, to a courtroom packed with family, friends, and colleagues of both Ruch and Plowden.
>McDermott suggested she would have let Ruch walk out of court with no prison time would it not diminish the severity of the voluntary manslaughter charge, which can carry up to 20 years in prison.
It'd be interesting to see how often she exercises such discretion when sentencing other folks.