How can you say someone is a first time offender when they have 34 counts. If I rob 34 houses before I get caught am I still a first time offender?
It is 34 counts, but still only a single crime. It is more analgous to robbing a single house once, but taking 34 items. Given how the bussiness records law are written, each false record is a seperate crime, but they were all done as part of the same scheme.
This is pretty common in criminal law. It is suprisingly difficult to commit only 1 crime.
Thanks, that does actually make sense.
Will be very interesting to see what the sentencing end up being, Trump really doesn’t seem to have done himself any favours there by constantly attacking the judge, jury and judges family.
It won’t matter. Maga fascist chuds will start the threats and everyone will back down
The same was said about him being convicted or not, and we haven’t seen the threats materialize since the verdict was announced.
Are you serious? There have been threats against judges.
There were threats that a conviction would lead to violent retaliation, but to my knowledge none of those threats have been carried out. So why let new threats about his potential sentence influence that?
I would guess the logic behind going harder on repeat offenders is that they’ve already been punished once and didn’t stop breaking the law, so we should punish them harder this time. Not sure that’s super effective reasoning, but w/e.
Despite common opinion, courts consider prison “rehabilitative incarceration.”
I know a first time offender who got 26 when their codefendents got 2 because they were the only one who insisted they hadn’t done anything wrong. Everyone else was recognizant of their guilt at the end of the trial. This is not unique and Merchan should be aware.
Oh, here comes the worming towards affluenza.
