01-06-2016, 02:41 PM
And since there's some confusion over the Hammond's sentencing, here's a pretty decent read on what happened and why the Bundy's are in the wrong. And dumb.
https://popehat.com/2016/01/04/what-happened-in-the-hammond-sentencing-in-oregon-a-lawsplainer/
If you don't want to read the whole thing, the meat of it is:
A judge went against federal law. He lost and the Hammonds had to do the time they were originally supposed to because... that's the law.
Sidenote: Personally, I think the sentence is too long. They'll be in prison longer than it will take the grass to grow back. But you work to change the law if it's wrong, you don't take over a federal building and threaten people.
https://popehat.com/2016/01/04/what-happened-in-the-hammond-sentencing-in-oregon-a-lawsplainer/
If you don't want to read the whole thing, the meat of it is:
Quote:At sentencing, the United States District Judge on the case refused to impose the five-year mandatory-minimum sentences required by Section 844, ruling that to do so would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The court instead imposed sentences of twelve months and a day on the father1 and three months on the son.
The government appealed the sentence, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and sent the case back, instructing the trial court to impose the statutory mandatory minimum sentence. The Court found — rather convincingly, given the precedent — that a five-year sentence for arson does not violate the Eighth Amendment:
A judge went against federal law. He lost and the Hammonds had to do the time they were originally supposed to because... that's the law.
Sidenote: Personally, I think the sentence is too long. They'll be in prison longer than it will take the grass to grow back. But you work to change the law if it's wrong, you don't take over a federal building and threaten people.
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