Question about the plot to Desperate Housewives.
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RynoII — 5 years ago(September 05, 2020 06:28 PM)
I watched the first season and I have a question about how American law works. I am not American, so perhaps I am not as familiar with this, but in the plot:
Carlos fears his wife is cheating so he follows her to where she goes and sees that she goes into a guy's apartment. Carlos hides and waits for her to leave and then goes into the guys apartment and breaks in and beats him up, out of jealousy.
Later he finds out that the guy is gay and he panics, thinking that the fact that the guy is gay will add to his prison sentence. But in the U.S., if you break into someone's house and beat them up, will your sentence be longer, if the homeowner was gay?
It just seems like that is irrevelant and breaking and entering, and assault, is still the same crime, no matter the sexual orientation of the homeowner.
And as a result of this, he gets his wife to testify in court that he had no idea the the homeowner was gay, otherwise he wouldn't have done it. This seems like a terrible idea, and will only incriminate him more, and why did his lawyer even agree to this?
Unless I am missing something? -
Rajesh 'Raj' 'Rajee' 'Raju' 'Premraj' Mullan — 5 years ago(September 05, 2020 07:42 PM)
I watched the first season and I have a question about how American law works. I am not American, so perhaps I am not as familiar with this, but in the plot:
Carlos fears his wife is cheating so he follows her to where she goes and sees that she goes into a guy's apartment. Carlos hides and waits for her to leave and then goes into the guys apartment and breaks in and beats him up, out of jealousy.
Later he finds out that the guy is gay and he panics, thinking that the fact that the guy is gay will add to his prison sentence.
But in the U.S., if you break into someone's house and beat them up, will your sentence be longer, if the homeowner was gay?
It just seems like that is irrevelant and breaking and entering, and assault, is still the same crime, no matter the sexual orientation of the homeowner.
And as a result of this, he gets his wife to testify in court that he had no idea the the homeowner was gay, otherwise he wouldn't have done it. This seems like a terrible idea, and will only incriminate him more, and why did his lawyer even agree to this?
Unless I am missing something?
Hallo buna. If the victim is gay, it could be considered a hate crime which is more worse than crime, hana -
RynoII — 5 years ago(September 05, 2020 07:51 PM)
But how much worse is it? Like two years more in prison worse, or how much worse are we talking? The defendant had to admit to the crime, to argue that he was not committing a hate crime, so is it worth confessing to a crime that could buy you say six years, if it means knocking off two more years?