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Old 10-10-2008, 01:46 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by habernac View Post
there was another story of a different guy who abused two different girls under the age of ten. He got 15 years, but the judge gave him double credit for time served. WTF? The guy is a sick #$!% who has basically told him he's probably going to reoffend and we want to let him out early?

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2...27871-sun.html
The "double time served" is, if I'm not mistaken, legislated. The judge doesn't have a choice, that's the way the system operates.

(I'm not going to look it up, although that's how my friends at the Crown tell me it operates)
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