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Originally Posted by transplant99
Good question.
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This may help ease your frustration. Being 15 at the time he would have likely been tried as a minor under the young offender's act, at the time the maximum sentence for a minor was 10 years. So he essentially served his sentence without a trial. Also under the YOA his identity should have been kept protected, had this happened technically you should have never even known what he did. So he served his sentence, and paid his debt to society and you have your justice, the irony being he didn't actually get a trial. 10 years is too light of a sentence? The law is what it is, but bear in mind most young offenders sentenced under the YOA get sentenced to prison at juvenile institutions not torture at Guantanamo bay.
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Originally Posted by Zethrynn
If it is a text book case then why wasn't he charged with it?
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Probably because due to the reasons above it would simply be a waste of tax payer's money to have a trial for the sake of a moral verdict.