Thursday, March 30, 2006

BURN AS MANY CHURCHES AS YOU WANT

According to news reports at Birmingham's NBC13, the three boneheads men charged with burning nine Alabama churches can face no more than seven years for the crime. It's not in the printed report linked, but in a broadcasted interview with the local Federal prosecutor the sentences for each arson would be "stacked", which she defined as running concurrently. In other words, regardless of how many churches they burned they could face no more than seven years. I'm open for correction if this is not the case, but that's what she said. Of course, that's not including the possibility of plea bargaining.

Oh, and according to the defense attorney "the fires were not crimes of hate." Certainly not. Clearly they were motivated by peace and love.

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