What's wrong with this picture?

[Jay Trotter]

Montana rapist freed after month-long sentence LINK (http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/montana-teacher-rape/index.html?hpt=ju_t3)

vs

Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing gun to scare off her allegedly abusive husband LINK (http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/justice/florida-stand-your-ground-domestic-violence/index.html?hpt=ju_t4)

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A Montana teacher gets a 30 day sentence for raping his 14 year old student (The student subsequently committed suicide) while a Florida woman gets 20 years for firing a warning shot into the ceiling to scare off her abusive husband (he wasn't even hit).

How can this even be possible? :bang:

[tucker6]

Montana rapist freed after month-long sentence LINK (http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/montana-teacher-rape/index.html?hpt=ju_t3)

vs

Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing gun to scare off her allegedly abusive husband LINK (http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/justice/florida-stand-your-ground-domestic-violence/index.html?hpt=ju_t4)



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A Montana teacher gets a 30 day sentence for raping his 14 year old student (The student subsequently committed suicide) while a Florida woman gets 20 years for firing a warning shot into the ceiling to scare off her abusive husband (he wasn't even hit).







How can this even be possible? :bang:













did you actually read the links?? I did, and didn't need to ask why it was possible. In one case, you have a bad (if not senile) judge, and in the other, the judge committed judicial error in jury instruction. Both cases are under review for new sentencing/trial.

[Jay Trotter]

did you actually read the links?? I did, and didn't need to ask why it was possible. In one case, you have a bad (if not senile) judge, and in the other, the judge committed judicial error in jury instruction. Both cases are under review for new sentencing/trial.My point wasn't so much the guilt of each individual, rather the sentencing structures. Where is the common sense in these types of sentences.

I realize both cases are under scrutiny. The difference in sentences are just crazy!

[Tom]

We have a neat plan in this country, on how to deal with our mentally challenged - it's called the judicial system.

[headhawg]

I think that you're selling that plan a little short, Tom. You need to include the legislative and executive branches as well.