Short Track Speed Skating 2019 - 2020 Discussion Thread

[Olympian1010 7,971]

I think he’s actually lucky here. His punishment would have been much worse in the US. He probably would have had a permanent ban from the sport for starters. Plus, he would have been given multiple accounts of sexual crimes.

[Monzanator 4,499]

4 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well, most manslaughter sentences are much more than one year for starters. Plus you make a pretty vague claim here since there’s more than one type of manslaughter crime. 

 

Yes, welcome to the criminal system. People have only one life but there's like a gazillion ways to describe a killing. No wonder these lawyers make so much money for defending killers

[heywoodu 15,135]

19 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I think he’s actually lucky here. His punishment would have been much worse in the US. He probably would have had a permanent ban from the sport for starters. Plus, he would have been given multiple accounts of sexual crimes.

Yes, but we all know the US judicial system is pretty sucky. It's either overreacting enormously or way underreacting  

[Olympian1010 7,971]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yes, but we all know the US judicial system is pretty sucky. It's either overreacting enormously or way underreacting  

I recently learned about the Brazilian judicial system, so I’m feeling pretty good about ours 

 

You have to remember that South Korea is modeled almost directly after the US system.