[koolba]

> Classic example is getting more time in jail (and loosing your house) for having a marajuana joint than if you raped someone.

Do you have a source for this ever actually happening?

[aardvark291]

Yes. Brock Turner got six months for rape.

Here's a selection of decade+ prison sentences for marijuana: https://www.boulderdefenseattorney.com/top-10-non-violent-ma...

[koolba]

The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced.

Skimming through your link, I don’t see anything involving someone with a single joint being incarcerated for anywhere near a rape charge.

Some of those sentences may be out of line on their own, but you also don’t have people being put away for 20 years for being caught smoking a joint.

[8ytecoder]

Only 33% of the cases even result in an arrest [1] and 6 in 1000 cases actually result in jail time. That only 384/1000 are even reported to police shows what people think their options are in getting justice. (US is not an exception by any means.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Pros...

[danaris]

> The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced.

Do you have evidence that it is not commonly how rape cases against affluent white men are prosecuted or sentenced?

[dragonwriter]

Well, sure, it's an outlier in such cases because it was prosecuted at all. But that's probably the opposite direction that the claim upthread meant to imply.

[aardvark291]

> The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced.

Indeed, my understanding is that rape is typically not prosecuted at all. :-/