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Originally Posted by boxcar
The better question is: Why have MORE gun laws when liberal lite-on-crime jurisdictions don't want to enforce the existing ones?
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From a Cornell law website:
suspended sentence
In
criminal law, a suspended
sentence is an alternative to imprisonment where a judge may partially or entirely suspend the
convicted individual's prison or jail sentence so long as they fulfill certain conditions. If the conditions are violated, then the state may petition to revoke the suspended sentence and reimpose the original term of the sentence by proving, in an evidentiary hearing and by a
preponderance of evidence standard, that the
defendant indeed violated the condition(s).
As I thought, and usually the conditions are staying clean, which this guy did not. I found the perp had 2 suspended sentences when he got the gun violation in 2021. Theoretically the judge could have nailed him for up to 3 years, by violating him on the suspended sentences, and giving him a year for the gun violation. If that was done his ass would have been in jail instead of
killing 3 young men with promising futures.