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shamrock_uk · 05-04-2005, 02:50 PM

Hope you don't mind me tagging this on, but Lynndie England has just had her guilty plea rejected because the judge has decided she "didn't know that what she was doing was wrong".

Heh, I'll never get the American legal system sometimes. The guilty plea allows her to have a lower sentence. By refusing it, the judge has ensured she will get a higher sentence. Yet his reason is that she didn't realise that she was doing something 'wrong' which implies she should have a lower sentence, no?

And what kind of a court won't let you say you are guilty??

[ 05-04-2005, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

05-04-2005, 02:50 PM	#4
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	Hope you don't mind me tagging this on, but Lynndie England has just had her guilty plea rejected because the judge has decided she "didn't know that what she was doing was wrong". Heh, I'll never get the American legal system sometimes. The guilty plea allows her to have a lower sentence. By refusing it, the judge has ensured she will get a higher sentence. Yet his reason is that she didn't realise that she was doing something 'wrong' which implies she should have a lower sentence, no? And what kind of a court won't let you say you are guilty?? [ 05-04-2005, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]