Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
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Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
Luis Rubiales: Prosecutors seek 2.5-year jail term over World Cup kiss
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Re: Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
Boy, has this guy's life gone into a supersonic nose dive all because of a simple, if a little OTT, kiss, or what?
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Re: Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
Slightly splitting hairs perhaps but over half of that 2 1/2 years is for the coercion afterwards, rather than the incident itself. Still feels a bit excessive though.
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Re: Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
'Prosecutor's seek' is the important bit there, which from a very quick Google would be expected to end up as around 6 month suspended sentence.
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Re: Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
..."still feels a bit excessive though". A bit excessive? It's just idiotic.Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:06 pm Slightly splitting hairs perhaps but over half of that 2 1/2 years is for the coercion afterwards, rather than the incident itself. Still feels a bit excessive though.
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Re: Bloke was a wally, but it's gone too far..
Why are you ignoring the two pertinent pieces of information here?
First pertinent piece of information:
* prosecutors are “seeking”. In practical terms, this means that prosecutors are understandably trying to press for the severest possible outcome, knowing that the defence case will be looking for the best possible outcome for their client, and the likelihood is that the actual outcome is a proportionate response to what happened
Second pertinent piece of information:
* it isn’t solely about the kiss, but about the coercion that is alleged to have taken place afterwards
First pertinent piece of information:
* prosecutors are “seeking”. In practical terms, this means that prosecutors are understandably trying to press for the severest possible outcome, knowing that the defence case will be looking for the best possible outcome for their client, and the likelihood is that the actual outcome is a proportionate response to what happened
Second pertinent piece of information:
* it isn’t solely about the kiss, but about the coercion that is alleged to have taken place afterwards