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      2 days ago

      Race motivated terroristic threats while armed and menacing, highly likely to re-offend given their motivations. Still seems like a lot but it may be enough to protect that family and others from similar threats.

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        This high of a sentence is almost impossible to get for a first offense, I don’t know the specifics of this law, but it screams maximum sentence, which screams repeated offence, possibly with defiance of a specific rulling.
        Those motherfuckers almost certainly had a hobby

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          From everything I’ve been able to find this isn’t a repeat offender situation, they were tried and sentenced under Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act since they were associated with a Confederate Flag “supporter” group called “Respect the Flag.” These charges came shortly after the Charleston church massacre which may have influenced the severity of the punishment.

          Basically a first offense resulting in maximum punishment due to the timing of the offense.

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            Oh nooooo… Maybe they shouldn’t associate with such unsavoury individuals. Birds of a feather and all that.

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              Idk, 15 and 20 years still seems excessive to me for a first offense. They are shitty people and so are the people they associated with, but if you apply this to every other shitty people criminal situation we’d have an even worse US incarceration issue than we do currently.

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      The American justice system is absurd. This is a rare example of it working equitably at least.