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I sent this originally as a PM, but I thought I would post it also . . .
I don't have the time right now to go into the whole idea of mob psychology in a thread lol . . .
But I think, and I'll go out on a limb here, that most people are unaware of how legal issues can follow them forever.
For example, and this is more extreme. This boy was 4 years older than this girl and they were going out. The parents didn't like the situation or the boy. It was a highs chool relationship.
So they thought they could, get him to stop seeing their daughter by calling the police. They were pissed.
The problem is, there is a specific law for statutory rape. The law read that you could be up to 4 years older than the girl. He was 4 years and 10 days older than her. The courts sentenced him to 8 years in jail. The judges tried to limit the sentence to four years because they considered 8 years cruel and unusual punishment.
The prosecutors appealed that decisions aying 4 years was not long enough.
Sometimes there is a law of unintended consequences where the eventual ends overshadow the initial situation.
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