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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Thank you for assuming that my wife and I are not intelligent enough to know this.
I really didn't think I had to say something like, "after we change the law, then we could sentence..."
Yes, of course that isn't the penalty for the crime. In my wife's opinion it should be. The only cruel and unusual is what Vick is.
The fact that Vick did not have a criminal record may have had a little to do with the extremely light sentence. It was more like he is a celebrity, which probably contributed to knocking more off the sentence than the fact that he was a first-time offender.
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For the record, Vick had a similar sentence that the other people he was charged with. And the other defendants had criminal records. Now those individuals were not celebrities of any kind. And Vick's sentence was typical of what others in that situation got. He did not get off easy and he lost a lot more than most defendants do.
I did not call you unintelligent, but when you do not know all the facts of the case and you assume that he got off easy, I have to question that my original thought.
Peace