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Placing intelligent people in jails, let alone prisons, for scant offences such as this is unconstitutional. It is cruel and inhumane punishment. The same case can be made for many intelligent citizens that get caught up in the system due to consensual crimes like minor drug possession.
Even though this is yeah, a trifle, the writer should, however, be given a stiff penalty because he disrespected the justice system by not showing up; he should have gotten a probationary sentence though. I wonder if he has a record, (for instance, maybe he's been on probation before) and that's one of the reasons why he was given time.
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