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by antonvs 105 days ago
> These are the kind of criminals where the judges will let them stay under home arrest in their twenty-bedroom mansion…

Another egregious example of this sort of thing:

> Robert H. Richards IV was convicted of rape, the wealthy heir to the Du Pont family fortune […] received an eight-year prison sentence in 2009 for raping his toddler daughter, but the sentencing order signed by a Delaware judge said “defendant will not fare well” in prison and the eight years were suspended.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/justice/delaware-du-pont-rape...

Talk about a two-tier justice system.