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I'm guessing the prosecutor gets something like the 45-50 they were asking for. Madoff got 150 years, though.
(excuse the ignorance, haven't been following this close enough on account of spoons)
40-50y req from prosecutor, wat - what's the story there? were they unsure they could secure more if they asked for[0]? is there some kind of fuckery around max sentencing because of charge class?
[0] as in: since sbf was declared guilty, the sentencing is going to happen regardless, but the value of assigned years is variable, and the assigned value could be below prosecutor request for $legalsystem reasons?[1] [1] I am not a US legal system enjoyer, so I don't have comprehensive knowledge on the minutae of that demented clusterfuck operates
@froztbyte @techtakes
That's a question for PopeHat, wherever he hangs his hat these days. He's a former Federal prosecutor.
for a purely legal reference opinion, probably
but I'm more wondering about the human/social side of the nitty-gritty of the proceedings (on which, by my estimation, our ~esteemed~ notorious @dgerard is far more contextually informed on)
Molly White may have you covered
https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-frieds-sentencing/
you know, that
esteemed
was meant to be strikethroughlemmy formatting strikes again
kenwhite.bsky.social is popehat for people who are missing his takes on the rico.