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From: peterf@ima.isc.com (Peter Fischman)
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Subject: Re: Len Rose sentenced to Prison Term
Keywords: spam Hacker spam Prison spam AT&T spam wire-fraud?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.131457.21494@ima.isc.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 13:14:57 GMT
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>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?"
>
Actually, a year and a day comes from the time when the year was 13 months
of 28 days, and the 365th day was kind of new years day.  So to send someone
away for 365 days, the sentence had to be for a year and a day.

Any way, that's what Robert Graves says.

peterf