Unfortunately he's not stark raving mad, but he is delusional. People
can be delusional and still live normal lives, then they decided that
they can fly, without the benefit of wings, or spark a crusade by
personal example.
On 7/25/2011 7:48 PM, Eckehard Wegner wrote:
I would hope that the containment bit would only apply to regular
criminals whereas this guy who is quite obviously stark raving mad
would hopefully be locked away under a different law governing the
treatment of the dangerously mentally ill. Either way IMO someone who
murdered so many kids in cold blood wouldn't last long in prison
unless locked away in solitary. We must not forget though that hate
breeds hate and punishment has never brought back even a single
victim. But I admit that if I was father of one of the victims I doubt
I could walk past him without an attempt at his sorry life.
2011/7/26 Tanya Love<[email protected]>:
Perhaps, fortunate to a degree. But, I shudder to consider living in a
region where a monster like this could potentially be back on the same
streets that my kids inhabit in just 21 years. Even with the "containment"
period, I think that is a VERY low penalty to pay for what he has done. I
am sure that the families of those he murdered would feel the same too...
Tan.x.
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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)
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