Re: 40,000-year sentences largely symbolic, says legal expert

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:48:15 +0100, Archie Valparaiso
<archievalparaiso@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:52:36 +0000, Vinny Burgoo <hlunnh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7070827.stm>

Four men were found guilty of planning and carrying out the
attacks and given 30 years for each of the 191 people killed and
18 years for each of the 1,841 injured.

The BBC's Pascale Harter in Madrid says the terms were largely
symbolic as under Spanish law the maximum term that can be
served is 40 years.

That's a very large "largely", in English usage. 99.9%?

And a wonky maximum, even. It's actually 30 years.

Does Spanish law have the distinction between consecutive and
concurrent sentences that English, etc. law has?

I get the impression that English courts tend to impose
concurrent sentences.

The thought of a Museum Prison in which a deceased prisoner is
incarcerated until the completion of thousands of years of
consecutive sentences does have an appeal.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
.

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