Amazing: "From 1994 to 2004 the Norwegian police fired approximately 79 shots; 48 of these were fired during the Nokas Robbery in 2004." (from the NOKAS article). Probably closer to the LAPD's weekly throughput. Man, you Norwegians sure are fortunate.
2011/7/26 Toralf Lund <[email protected]>: > 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) >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
