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Duke's sentence
Sometime tomorrow, Randy "Duke" Cunningham will have been sentenced. The prosecution wants the max--ten years.
The defense wants no more than six years, on the grounds that he admitted his guilt, he regrets his behavior, and he has health problems, although the only thing I've seen in that regard is that he had prostate cancer in the past.
Frankly, I don't give a shit HOW sorry he is, since it wasn't like he confessed before he was hopelessly cornered. I also don't care if he regrets his behavior. Tell that to the Pentagon officials who report that he tried to have them fired, and went over their heads because they questioned the legitimacy of some of the contracts he was paid to push.
I say give him the max, since he's the most egregious political bribery case I can recall.
It's a little overused, but "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time" still works for me.
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