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Originally Posted by Cali Coug
Check out these two articles from today's Salt Lake Tribune:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7630076?source=rv
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7630077?source=rv
Case 1: Man gets 55 YEARS for dealing pot with a concealed firearm (first offense)- the man is black.
Case 2: Man gets 1-15 years for nearly starving a child to death over the course of a year while the child's mother was in Iraq (child went from 35 pounds to 13 under his care while he was admittedly wasted on drugs and alcohol)- man is white.
Race may have nothing to do with the disparity, but you have to at least wonder. 55 years for dealing pot with a gun hardly seems constitutional. |
Did you completely ignore the part of the story that tells us that the sentence was mandatory?
Judge Cassell has lamented that it was a harsh sentence, but he had no choice but to hand down the punishment. It has absolutely nothing to do with race.
The other guy has pretty much been given a death sentence when the other prisoners find out what a coward he is for abusing a small child. Hopefully, the department of corrections will put him in general population so he can be treated the way he deserves to be treated.