What about unjustly light sentences though? Like a sex criminal who is let off easy because he’s white, has rich parents and was on track to get a high paying career?
I’m not deep into this situation but my understanding is that no minimum sentence would have helped there. Nobody being above the law might have helped…
Then the prosecution brings case law where a person of color in a similar situation got a very different sentence, or someone without the rich parents etc.
I’m sure there’ll be biases but minimum sentences won’t undo those. I’d find minimum and maximum sentences very unfair for situations like described by the person you replied to. Case law and perhaps a blinding system (Justice is blindfolded after all) where at least one of the judges involved doesn’t get to learn things like “white guy with rich parents” might be a better solution if that’s the problem this is intended to solve
What about unjustly light sentences though? Like a sex criminal who is let off easy because he’s white, has rich parents and was on track to get a high paying career?
Or someone can just skip prison and become leader of the country instead ahem USA ahem
I’m not deep into this situation but my understanding is that no minimum sentence would have helped there. Nobody being above the law might have helped…
Then the prosecution brings case law where a person of color in a similar situation got a very different sentence, or someone without the rich parents etc.
I’m sure there’ll be biases but minimum sentences won’t undo those. I’d find minimum and maximum sentences very unfair for situations like described by the person you replied to. Case law and perhaps a blinding system (Justice is blindfolded after all) where at least one of the judges involved doesn’t get to learn things like “white guy with rich parents” might be a better solution if that’s the problem this is intended to solve