Equal Justice Under Law?
It’s always hard to second-guess a state sentencing decision based only on press reports. You don’t know the details of the sentencing scheme, or the details of the factual findings. But I wonder what sentence this defendant would have received if she had been an African-American male who had dropped out of high school?
UPDATE: Brooks Holland weighs in with a very helpful comment here.
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