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ZeldaMutant posted...

8 years is already a reasonable sentence for 2 armed robberies. The law and justice system are in the wrong here. "8 years concurrently, 98 years consecutively" means that he was convicted on at least 13 counts. So it's some technical bullshit where if there's 7 people in the shop it counts as 7 cases of assault.

The kidnapping charges were for moving three employees from one room to another and added 48 years to his sentence.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/12/how-an-inmates-second-chance-was-yanked-away-after-officials-discovered-88-year-sentencing-mistake/

Lima-Marin and Clifton were convicted in separate trials but sentenced at the same hearing. The prosecutor had dissected the robberies into a litany of discrete actions — including kidnapping, because they moved employees from one room to another. That approach produced a sentencing structure boosted by the crime-of-violence enhancer toward a total of 98 years. That was the low end of a range that could have exceeded 300 years.

At sentencing, Judge John Leopold took issue with that strategy: “I am not comfortable, frankly, with the way the case is charged, but that is a district attorney executive branch decision that I find that I have no control over.”

That decision was informed by the input of the Chronic Offender Program, which the 18th Judicial District designed in the late 1980s to put away criminals considered an ongoing threat to public safety for as long as possible. In 1998, five years after the so-called “Summer of Violence” in metro Denver had turned a laser focus on violent crime, the COP came down hard.

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I've been thinking about it for several minutes now