[reaperman]

Anecdotally it’s very random. I’d need a corpus of statistics to agree or disagree with your claim that violent crime has excessively short sentences while white collar crime has excessively long sentences.

Many people believe the opposite, given the number of life savings affected by white collar crime. Here’s a judge who thinks that violent crime sentencing is insanely long: https://archive.is/YL2Ek

It opens with a 146-year strict minimum sentencing for a crime described as:

> The teenager’s crime was horrible: He robbed a small restaurant at gunpoint, ordered the patrons onto the floor and ended up having a shootout with one customer who happened to have a gun. Miraculously, the only person injured was the robber, who was shot in the foot.