On 7/25/11 5:50, Anthony Farr wrote:
On 25 July 2011 12:39, John Sessoms<[email protected]> wrote:
One thing that's disturbing me about all this is according to news reports
I've seen, the maximum sentence he can get is 21 years. He should at least
be locked up the rest of his life.
They probably don't hand out consecutive sentences like USA courts
give, either. So perhaps we won't see a 2000+ year prison term
derived from each crime being penalised individually. One of our
Norwegian friends might enlighten us on that question.
Correct. You can never get more than the maximum penalty for the "worst"
offence.
But, like Dag said, even though 21 years is the maximum normal
punishment, but one can also be sentenced to "containment", which is
indefinite, but with reassessment after a certain period, for crimes
that "violate the life, health or freedom", where there is a clear risk
for repeat crimes. This was used e.g. in for several convicts in a
high-profile case a few years ago where less violence seemed to be
involved (if you can put it that way) - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOKAS_robbery.
Some of this is also described in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway. I believe the
article is a bit inaccurate, but it does convey the basic principles.
- Toralf
A common ruse of prosecuters is to only charge a defendant with a
portion of the crime so that fresh charges can be brought after the
prisoner has served out his first sentence, and so on. Send him down
for the murders, then another bite of the cherry for the bombings,
plus I'm sure there'll be a veritable shopping list of terrorism,
impersonation of a police officer, firearms, transport of dangerous
goods, and as many other things as the prosecuters have the creativity
to define. These are all serious crimes so I don't think any statute
of limitations, if Norway has such a thing, would come into play. If
it did, then they'd simply start with the crimes that "expire" first.
The prosecuter could make a very long game of this.
It's going to be a long time if ever before this man sees freedom. I
really can't see him on the streets in 21 years, but even if that were
to happen he'd be unlikely to survive a year on the outside. He's
made an awful lot of enemies.
regards, Anthony
"Of what use is lens and light
to those who lack in mind and sight"
(Anon)
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