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

John O'Flaherty wrote:
Archie Valparaiso wrote:
Peter Duncanson wrote:

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

I'm not sure, but I get the impression that it's all very much left
to the judges' discretion. Although the basic idea is that each crime
victim is entitled to his or her full whack of "justice" in
multiple-victim cases as if his or hers had been the only crime
committed -- hence the longer-than-many-lifetimes sentences in
multiple-victim cases like the Madrid bombings -- I don't think it's
applied very rigidly for lesser offences. For instance, I very much
doubt that if in one evening you twocced four cars you'd be sent away
for twice as long as someone who had only nicked two.

Is "twocced" a word, or an editing snafu?

Read the "Subway" thread. That will explain everything.

(TWOC = taking without owner's consent.)

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Skitt

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