Enough Merka-bashing, really now
I'd like to reiterate this is a very isolated case - his judge had been old and long-standing, sex offenders (even just technically so - public indecency, etc.) are judged quite harshly (who wants to defend someone in the same category as a kiddy-fiddler?) and he had accepted a sort of decision that gives up the right to appeal in exchange for a lighter sentence - usually.

My goal was to point out how exceptionally unlucky this bastard was, not to bash the (otherwise rather decent) Austin judicial system.
(TheManWhoWas SlightlyKnackered, Fri 24 Apr 2009, 17:50, 1 reply)

You're OK, we're not having a go
It wouldn't happen in the UK because judges don't have the powers to impose their own type of sentence. They have a fairly "fixed list" of things they can do. Something we cry about when real sex offenders are only given a light sentence.

The US system has got it's advantages, but also the possibility that this sort of thing happening.

At least your police/legal systems more exciting than ours. Have you seen the car chases on our home-grown Police-Stop-Kill programs??
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 10:40, closed)