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Join Date: Jul 2013
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 30,350
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This is a complicated situation... obviously, it's pretty foul that this guy is getting money essentially for committing a terrible crime.
On the other hand - this isn't really about this guy and taking the specifics out of the equation there MUST be consequences for people being unlawfully detained beyond the length of their sentence... otherwise the entire sentencing system becomes a sham. You commit a crime, you are sentenced, you serve that sentence and then you are released... that's pretty much the basics of the law... if it becomes a system where the authorities can just release someone "whenever they feel like it" with no repercussions, that has some pretty scary implications for everyone.
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