Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee will sentence two defendants each day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after twice delaying the proceedings. Each faces the potential of decades behind bars.
Why is there no attempted murder charge? They shot a man in the fucking head. The sentences better better be the equivalent of life for crimes this egregious.
From the article:
Fortunately, doesn’t seem like they’re letting them off easy or anything.
I read the maximums, and I’m just concerned the judge could be “lenient” with sentencing.
The judge stated during sentencing that the first officer deserves more than the maximums.
The people who write these news articles usually have no idea how sentencing guidelines work (or don’t care because bigger number = more clicks) and these numbers are much higher than someone with no criminal record would get. They also pleaded guilty and will serve federal and state time simultaneously which will reduce their sentence.
I suspect they will get at most 20 years each unless the judge really hates them regardless of what they deserve.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer
Probably because prosecution wanted a sure win with lower burden of proof charges, than a possible loss with ones that are harder to get a conviction on.
They are white