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Continued buzzing about the (soft?) sentence given to Fumo

By Douglas A. Berman

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Especially in Pennsylvania's papers, there continues to be plenty of discussion of the 55-month prison sentence imposed on state lawmaker Vincent Fumo for his convictions on various corruption charges. Here are two stories that caught my eye and provide notable perspectives on both the sentence itself and the debate surrounding it: From the Philadelphia Inquirer here, "How Fumo's fate stacks up against others' sentences" From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review here, "Ex-senator Fumo's punishment draws outrage as too lenient" The second piece spotlights why there is so frequently political and public pressure for sentences always to go up rather than down: it is very rare that we ever see stories headlined "Criminal's punishment draws outrage as being too harsh...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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