Norwegian student risks 35 years in jail in the US - made a wrong turn

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193. Confused?

This has nothing to do with the court rule to give the guy 7.5 years (he was already been found guilty in attempted murder, so it was a choice of 5-35 years).

If I really believed that he tried to kill seven people on purpose, I would have smiled right now. If I thought that anything he did in IL would matter for this particular case, I also would have smiled. But it doesn't.

None got hurt, it seems like a pure traffic offence, serious one, that recquire I big ticket. 7.5 years.... seriously

Your problem is that you care more about what the kid did in 2002 than how the legal system works. No matter what has been done, it is a process that you think you'd find in a third world country. It takes 1 month before the police starts to talk to people. All witnesses are related or friends. The main witness would probably go to jail himself if he can't get John convicted. The judge are due for election this year, in a conservative county. The police are totally insane - look at vg.no and look at the video of it.

I don't know what happend, but I've read enough to see that this process is far away from a fair trial. Forget drugs (he was not sentence for drugs or pills, purely attemted murder, no influence). Forget the past, he was not sentenced for that either.

Do you believe the guy tried to kill seven people, but was not able to do it?