He deserved 30 years…
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rjstephen — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 10:11 PM)
All the way through this movie its painted in a way that we are supposed to have sympathy for him. But all i thought was he deserved the 30 years. He broke the law, he was trafficking drugs. Its a serious crime and if he decides to break the law in a particular country he should accept the punishment that country imposes when caught. Yeah 30 years is a long time, but maybe he should have thought about that before he tried to smuggle drugs in Turkey.
Turkey infact shows some leniency in comparison to some other countries that will put you to death for drug offences (which i am against, i disagree with the death penalty) but i think 30 years is about right -
creatorof2002 — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 01:19 AM)
There is no 'justice" in the criminal justice system. Bradley Manning is arguably a hero for being a whistle blower and she was told by her lawyer that her sentence was longer than rapists, child molesters and even some murderers (2nd degree murder is usually 20 years).
His sentence was totally excessive. I hope that guard he killed rots in hell. -
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creatorof2002 — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 02:23 PM)
Even IF someone deserves that long a sentence for a non violent drug offense, here in USA we have draconian drug laws. However, what about proportionality? How can a drug sentence be LONGER than murder (unless first degree) rape, monstrous child abuse and other very violent crimes even though it is non violent? If a drug dealer really deserves 30 years then why isn't the sentence for rape or child abuse well over 200 years (in rare cases it is like that sicko who kidnapped and repeatedly raped his victims for 10 years).
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micklips2013 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 08:53 AM)
His original sentence was 4 years and 2 months. Then it was decided that an example was to be made and it was increased to 30 years. Lets not forget this was his forth time of making this type of trip, the amount he had about his body and where he was.
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rjstephen — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 04:33 PM)
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'His original sentence was 4 years and 2 months. Then it was decided that an example was to be made and it was increased to 30 years. Lets not forget this was his forth time of making this type of trip, the amount he had about his body and where he was.''
yeah, thata all the more reason why i think he deserved the 30 year punishment -
SealedCargo — 6 years ago(April 18, 2019 06:20 AM)
but his dad says it was all Nixon's fault.
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