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From: kdenning@genesis.Naitc.Com (Karl Denninger)
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Subject: Re: Len Rose sentenced to Prison Term
Summary: There's more than that to it
Keywords: spam Hacker spam Prison spam AT&T spam wire-fraud?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.232007.15146@Firewall.Nielsen.Com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 23:20:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.182102.9221@netcom.COM> ser@netcom.COM (Steve Rubin) writes:
>In article <1991Jun17.171009.25930@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>>
>>	Why a year and a day?  What is the motive behind this?  Why not just
>>a year?  So now they can say, "We put him in just, not just for a year, but
>>MORE than a year?"
>
>(this is real stupid)
>If they put someone away for more then a year they can put them in a Federal 
>Prison instead of state prison.  Stupid ehh?

Unless things have changed drastically in the last many years, there is one
important difference:

A sentence of more than a year in prison (jail) costs you a good number of
your Constitutional rights.  A sentence of less typically does not.

At least that's how I remember it from Government class.  It's been a long
time.

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