OJ Sentencing

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

If a man is believed by most everyone to have killed a child but he goes through the justice system and is found not guilty........then the parent of that child goes and kills the alleged killer........it's my belief that the parent should be prosecuted fully. I may totally understand where they were coming from and to everyone, the killing may be justified. But going soft on the parent is not how the system is supposed to work. Allowing judges to put their personal feelings into decisions is scary. I thought that a man couldn't be tried for the same crime twice. Something about double jeopardy. The truth of the matter is that this judge today decided that she wasn't happy with the decision of his murder trial and imposed her own sentence for THAT trial, even though fairly or unfairly, he already went through that and was found not guilty. There's no way that any rational thinking person can agree that the punishment received fit THIS crime. In my opinion, this decision is as much a breakdown in the system as the one that found him not guilty in the murder trial.

Agree with most of that...not ready to say the judge did that, as "some folks" stated earlier, if the sentence is upheld on what surely will be an appeal, then only she will know.