News Item: Father who raped daughter, ordered her to throw their children down air shaft, gets 35 years
UPDATE: Congratulations, Lou Dobbs- he's an illegal alien! (I know you had your fingers crossed.)
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 26, 2007 03:45 PMI'm so tired of judges. But the reason this was 35 years rather than life is because it was a plea rather than a conviction after trial: no one ever pleads to the statutory maximum.
Posted by: Dave J at April 26, 2007 06:17 PM