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Originally Posted by Tophat665
I think that the one point SF actually has here is that the prosecutors were not seeking jail time for any of this, and that it was imposed by the judge. SF could be right that there were racist or misogynistic motives in that part. There were also, likely, anti-athlete motives, anti-impunity motives, and anti-smug-fuck motives.
I honestly don't think that they can be picked out, and accusing the judge of one or any of them is so much whistling in the dark if one doesn't actually read his opinion (which I am not interested in this enough to do even if it were handed me.)
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You know what - people with high profiles sometimes get off (hello, OJ) and sometimes they get made an example of. Personally, I'm glad when an example is made of someone.
Just the other day, in the community I live in, Rob Ramage, former Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL team, was sentenced to 4 years in jail for his drunk-driving escapade that ended up killing a friend of his.
Ramage isn't black, he isn't a woman, but he got a pretty stiff sentence - and believe you me, in this hockey-crazed area, everyone is having second thoughts about getting behind the wheel after having a few if the courts are willing to put an NHL star away for so long.