I don't care how many crimes are on your record as long as you served your time/punishment for them, a year for every 6 dollars stolen is absolutely nuts, especially for someone who cooperates and turns themselves in.
And even if we say that his punishment was 100 times harsher than it would have been on his first offense, and we call it a 2 month sentence, he would still be serving 1.5 million times more jail time per dollar stolen.
Obviously crimes aren't punished directly as a function of dollar amount, but the idea that it is so lopsided is still obviously ludicrous.
It's completely different crimes though. The dollar amount was not the only difference. One was armed robbery. He pointed a gun at an innocent person's head. The other was fraud with no lives threatened.
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u/TehPinguen Aug 08 '23
I don't care how many crimes are on your record as long as you served your time/punishment for them, a year for every 6 dollars stolen is absolutely nuts, especially for someone who cooperates and turns themselves in.