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Originally Posted by fredr123
What the judge is saying is that had these two sexual assaults been known when James was originally sentenced, it would have bumped his sentence up a bit from what he actually did receive. James is, in a sense, getting some credit for the fact that he was previously convicted and served time for those earlier known offences. Proceeding in this fashion prevents an offender from being locked up almost indefinitely because his victims come forward one at a time over time rather than everyone coming forward all at once. In this way, the guy who is convicted of sexually assaulting four kids is going to get the same or similar sentence no matter when the victims come forward. To do so otherwise would mean that James would receive a greater sentence because two of his victims came forward much later than the first ones.
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Okay, so this means that he was sentenced to a total of 5.5 years in prison. Still really bad considering.