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PhillyPanda t1_iwrtgmh wrote

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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."

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>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/

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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

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mrhedgefund t1_iwt5oqm wrote

I see now, I was thinking you meant the opposite 🤦‍♂️

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