The public opinion has more to do with things than we know. Public opinion has made judges change (reconsider) their sentences many times.
We might not be able to change sentences every time but we sure can use the information from those sentences to see how a judge thinks and acts on the law and then we can let our opinion be known when that person is in the process of getting even a more powerful position. That is where we are now. I don’t want someone that has a record on child porn cases that was easy on the perpetrator 100% of the time to have more power. I sure the hell wouldn‘t be standing up for that person. I would also speak against the person that is trying to move them into a more powerful job. Then again we only speak out against what we are against.
Around 5 million people have signed a petition seeking clemency for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was sentenced for a crash that killed four. A judge set a Jan. 13 hearing to reconsider the sentence.
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