Gettin' Off Easy
From the Boston Globe:
Concurrently? What's the bloody point to that?
If I were the judge in this case, I'd see to it that he didn't start serving his one-year sentence until after he was officially pronounced dead in his cell, and the original, signed death certificate hand-delivered to my chamber*.
*After, of course, his lawyers' successful appeal of my original sentencing of "dismemberment by wild boar".
LAWRENCE, Mass. -- A Lawrence man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty by a jury Thursday of first-degree murder.
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He was also found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm, for which he received a one-year sentence to be served concurrently.
Concurrently? What's the bloody point to that?
If I were the judge in this case, I'd see to it that he didn't start serving his one-year sentence until after he was officially pronounced dead in his cell, and the original, signed death certificate hand-delivered to my chamber*.
"I'm sorry, ma'am, we can't release your father's body for burial yet. He's got, let's see, 362 days now left to serve on the gun charge."
*After, of course, his lawyers' successful appeal of my original sentencing of "dismemberment by wild boar".
