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BlueWI

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20. Even if he gets nine months in jail, it's a message.

Reply to Firestorm49 (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 13, 2018, 11:36 PM

Nov 2018

His reputation is permanently sullied, due to his own actions. And soon he'll be in lockdown.

I haven't lived in a prison but I have spoken in them on a couple of occasions. Nine months might seem short to us, but it won't seem short to him.

And he's looking at multiple years. Incarceration from age 53 to age 57, probably as a first time in the system? It's hard for me to wish that on anyone, even though it's called for based on the severity of his actions. Calling for more years is beside the point, IMO. He's about to learn some lessons that are hard to forget.

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