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Originally Posted by MofoAgro
I'd rather see a criminal complaint and not a civil complaint.
Whatever.
Since a lot of people are chiming in with expert analysis, I have some to offer when it comes to jail/prison time as a 14.5 year vet in corrections.
While it is common knowledge that there are A TON of variables when it comes to actual time served, even with sentencing guidelines in place, the average person doesn't understand just how varied the time served to the time sentenced can be. For instance, there is a person in my jail who operated his vehicle, while intoxicated, in a reckless manner and the mother of his child was run over, by him and killed. He was sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence but ordered to serve 1 year of work release as part of probationary conditions. (Thankfully he screwed that up and got an additional year and was removed from work release) I tell this to highlight the fact that while, if charged, Postle will certainly be sentenced to a lengthy prison stay, he may only serve jail time and not much at that. All of the depends on not just statues and sentencing guidelines but other factors like criminal history, quality of his attorney, or hell, even if the judge is having a bad day or not. That being said, mother****er is way guilty and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law available.
Long story short, the American criminal justice system sucks and I could rant about it for days.