Convicted rapist caught after nearly 35 years on run
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It's America guys, a life sentence is a life sentence, it's not Norway where killing 100+ people will get you 25 years. You can be paroled after 25 years but it will probably be denied.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;40105494]Good riddance.[/QUOTE]
Who the hell disagrees with this? The guy violently raped 3 people
[QUOTE=NeoSeeker;40108959]it's technically not a life sentence though unless the judge deems no chance for parole.
[/quote] Objectively wrong, you are. It [i]is[/i] a life sentence. You are put away for the rest of your years. Being eligible for parole does not change that fact, the judge at your parole hearing is well within his right to say "No, you need to serve the rest of your sentence, you're too much of a monster to be let back out onto the street."
Parole isn't 'release'. Parolees have to be constantly monitored by the cops, have to report their every move just about, many of them have to wear tracking bracelets, and they have to attend regular parole hearings. The [i]slightest[/i] fuckup, anything more severe than a traffic ticket most of the time, sees them right back into the clink for violating parole. They're also given really strict terms on what they can and cannot do.
If you truly think the chance of parole means it isn't a life sentence you have a lot more learning to do. That's just not how it works. Parole is, in theory anyway, a way for someone truly repentant to get leniency and a second chance, nothing more.
so instead of rating me disagree you rate me dumb.
also you seem to assume i know dick about the american justice system.
i mean as if i wouldn't know... charley manson gets his parole hearings but they're constantly denied, shit i watch them as they come out. the guys a nut :3
this kind of presumptuousness makes me not want to continue this conversation. but im bullheaded and opinionated
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also i've been through "second chance" systems and they're bullshit
all you have to do is play ball and be nice and it's smooth sailing. although i wasn't under constant threat of rape and/or terrible death, nor did i ever have to defend my life (considering it was a meth town i was probably close to it a shitload of times)
[editline]31st March 2013[/editline]
okay, all i'm saying is that if there's a way set in place there for one to get out, even if it's quite obviously never going to happen but they have parole anyways, it isn't a life term in my eyes.
this isn't an objective observation, it's a subjective one.
objectively yes, a life term is a life term for most people. this is exacerbated by the fact that the prison environment itself only gets inmates into more trouble, even if they aren't looking for any.
but there are still those who get life and then get paroled, that's the basis of my opinion on the matter. life isn't universally a life sentence because people getting life sentences have gotten paroled before
if anything it's simply ambiguous, and that a true life sentence does exist, it simply exists with the future decisions of authority and severity of the crime and behavior following incarceration.
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