<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 August 2012 22:18, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I stand with Pussy Riot. The judge<br>
should have given them two weeks in the slammer for trespassing, not two<br>
years.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Looks like Pussy Riots in Germany you may end up getting a harsher sentence than their colleagues in Russia:<br><a href="http://rt.com/news/pussy-riot-cologne-cathedral-463/">http://rt.com/news/pussy-riot-cologne-cathedral-463/</a>.<br>
<br>What surprises me is that most Americans I speak with are persuaded that US courts would be much more lenient in equivalent circumstances, which does not correspond to what I can infer from federal sentencing guidelines...<br>
<br>Any US lawyer care to comment?<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>