lmao yes congrats to Paul Manafort for having to serve only up to 80 years in prison instead of up to 305 years 🎉
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@malice He'll be sentenced to no more than 15, closer to 10. Been saying this for months -- based on the sentencing guidelines. The time for each will be served concurrently, not consecutively.
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@ellewoodsruns Also worth noting that at age 69, a 10 year sentence could well be life.
@malice I don't disagree.
The reason I raised this is because folks are saying he's facing "up to" anywhere from 60 to 280 years (I've heard quite the range). These numbers put the public in a position of expecting a ginormous sentence, which will never happen, can't happen, not because of discretion, but because of required groupings and max sentences for groupings.
False hope and excitement that gets burst sucks, but that's what lots of these numbers being bandied about do.