• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If convicted, Hunter Biden could face up to 17 years in prison. The special counsel probe remains open, Weiss said.

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      7 months ago

      “if”… “could”

      Oh no! That means it’s… probably going to happen, right? Everyone get ready for exactly that to go down!

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      That is extremely unlikely to actually occur. For that figure he would have to be convicted of every count, given the maximum sentence for every count, and sentenced to serve it consecutively.

      Consecutive sentencing is pretty much guaranteed not to happen. So you can immediately reduce the high end to whatever the most serious count is. Then since it’s federal, the judge will have sentencing guidelines that will add up a whole bunch of aggravating and mitigating factors to arrive at the final sentence.

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        7 months ago

        That is extremely unlikely to actually occur

        As is just paying a small fine…

        I thought I wouldn’t need to explain that to be people, but man, I’ve just really been overestimating Lemmy lately

        Did we federate with some new instance where you all just see single comments in a vacuum with zero context?