• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    IMHO, the judge is handling him with kid gloves so that, when he’s sentenced, he will have fewer avenues for an appeal. Because he wasn’t locked up and was given small (for him) fines, he’ll have fewer opportunities to mount miscarriage of justice claims.

    Edit: sentenced, not convicted.