Justice - One Little Case at a Time...
It was refreshing to see a Surrey kidnapper sentenced to 13 years in jail. But why are these sentences so few and far between? And did this one result in the kind of sentence most reasonable people expect, while so many other murderers, rapists and sundry scum get off with hand slapping?
The so-called Criminal Justice System remains one of the great mysteries.
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Indeed, next to the much fabled Loch-Ness Monster to the elusive bigfoot, the Criminal Justice System that we have is something that was designed to be so intangible that we can't even come close to comprehend how and if it works. On more serious crime cases like the hit and run of Dr. David Higgins from New Zealand, the offender Xiao Zhang was able to evade the Vancouver Police and when requested to return his passport, failed to do so citing that he had lost it. How hard would it be to put two and two together to see that guilty offenders (or murderer in Zhang's case) like Zhang don't deserve to go anywhere except to court for the formalities and then spend at least 25 years in a cold murky cot in one of BC's numerous corrections centres. It's the stupid notion of erratic sentences of similar crimes that baffle the ordinary citizen. As it seems, justice has been served, except here you get a "Get out of jail free card" after a short tenure in the slammer.
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