Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Another where's the justice? Note: This was originally posted by Dither.

Martin Pang may get to go free. He's the one who torched his parents' warehouse and four fire fighters died trying to put the fire out. For some reason the Supreme Court decided that the sentence that Pang accepted for his actions was declared illegal. They said that the crime that Martin pled guilty to (and when someone pleads guilty a jury trial is not done) could not have that long a sentence applied without a jury trial, so therefore, his sentence was not legal. His lawyer should be proud. Justice was again misplaced, ah, misdirected, ah, set aside? Where are the consequences for activities? Is ten years in prison enough to pay back the families of the dead fire fighters? He only came back to the US because the death penalty was set aside so that Brazil would allow his extradiction. Now he may become a free man... Where's the justice?

Note: This was originally posted by Dither.

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