(January 4, 2009 at 12:51 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: Either way someone is still making a judgement call on the motivation of a crime, in essence the thought behind it, and giving you a punishment for it.A judge's job to to sentence someone to a punishment appropriate to the crime committed. If someone punched another person because he's black, that person is obviously going to be at a greater risk to reoffend.
If someone is in a drunken bar fight, a judge can see that alcohol was a big part of the crime, and the person is at less of a risk to reoffend. He can give him a lesser sentence.
In a way, it's getting at the same idea, but in my opinion one thing society doesn't need is putting things like these on paper in our lawbooks. Let the judges do their jobs.
