Not that this has anything to do with that, but my dad's half-brother's son (what does that make him to me, half cousin? who knows!) moved to a different school district so that his kid could be a big fish football player in a small pond instead of a small fish football player in a big pond. The "kid" did end up playing in college and then went pro for 2 years, so I guess that got him noticed. He owns a small town sports training center now (and is a realtor).
I think that's fair given the circumstances, and hope that judges will be similarly fair with less privileged defendants.
I hope not!
It isn't splitting the difference. As mentioned in previous posts, the prosecution wanted her to get a month in jail and a $20,000, plus a year of probation. So, she's paying more in fines and spending time doing community service in lieu of cooling her heels in jail. Arguably, this is a harsher sentence than what the prosecution requested.
And the defense requested zero jail time. The judge gave 14 days, hence splitting the difference. I'm focusing on the prison sentence, since that has been the focus of discussion here. The fine is a drop in the bucket for Huffman and Macy.
IINM, there is time off from federal jail service for good behavior. In addition to time in jail, however, Felicity Huffman, is going to have to spend 250 hours doing community service, for which there is no time off. Assuming she can do eight-hour shifts of community service five days a week, that's more than six weeks of full-time community service.
I believe federal inmates must serve most of their sentence (something like 85%) in order to qualify for early release. I'm not sure whether that applies to short sentences like Huffman's.
I'm not arguing anything. You seem to be the one who wants to pick a (rather pointless) argument. You said my post was incorrect, I was pointing out the facts. I'm not interested in debating her sentence.
She has to report by October 25th. It's right there in the article that Debbie posted.
But she asked for community service. So I don't think she sees it that way.
She has said that she deserves her sentence. I wonder whether Lori Loughlin will feel the same way about hers, whatever it may be.
McDowell was on trial for both the school issue and drug charges, and took a plea bargain. Five years seems excessive even for that, but the cases are hardly the same.
Here's the longer Snopes writeup. I don't see how you can argue that the two cases are the same, unless Huffman has been engaging in illegal acts that we have yet to hear about.
www.snopes.com
Count me as one of the unimpressed when it comes to the community service sentencing. Eva Longoria in her letter of support wrote about how Huffman already volunteers her time to help the "little brown girls" (or something like that
- I'm sure she meant well but the presentation of the white savior Huffman as helping the unfortunate was unfortunate). The community service requirement is just business as usual.
Thank you. I didn't get a chance to read the article, which was why I asked.
