It wouldn’t be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?

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    2 months ago

    I think his crimes hold a maximum of 4 years in prison. But not a single person charged for them the first time has gotten prison time and usually get probabtion and a fine.

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      2 months ago

      You’re correct on all those points.

      The take by the legal experts back while the trial was ongoing all said with no priors and it being nonviolent crime that none of them expected him to see prison.

      But if we never get him convicted of any crimes, it won’t matter very much.

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        2 months ago

        But if we never get him convicted of any crimes, it won’t matter very much.

        Texhnicslly, if we never see him sentenced for his convictions it won’t matter. He has 34 convictions.

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          If there’s no sentence, was there a point to a trial?

          This whole circus is held up on the fact the Supreme Court is entertaining the idea that any of the things he’s charged with (or convicted of) can pass as him doing the job he was elected to do.

          If he wins, this sentencing date will never come, and neither will any of the others. His acts will be officially sanctioned, and the only ones being sentenced will be us.

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      2 months ago

      Nobody else has his track record for repeatedly breaking laws though. His organization is criminal. His CFO has already done time twice. So did the lawyer representing him in this literal affair.

      If Michael Cohen did time for the same crimes, Trump will do time for ordering Cohen to commit the crimes.

      Will it be the maximum of 4 years? Likely not. And he’ll do whatever is necessary to not serve the full time, whatever it is.