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Post by Babycakes on Apr 10, 2019 20:12:31 GMT -4
Any chance she'll just get probation? Hopefully not. Even if it's only a Paris Hilton style jailing and release due to overcrowding, she needs to get the full treatment. Mugshot, handcuffs, cavity search, itchy jumpsuit, uncomfortable bed, bad food, unending noise, grouchy cellmates, and unimpressed guards. Even if it's just for a month, I'll take it. |
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Post by Millis on Apr 10, 2019 20:28:55 GMT -4
Will she be tried in Boston? I don't think judges or jurors in Boston will be as favorable to a celebrity as one in CA. Also, does the trial location determine where she'll be incarcerated?
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Post by Auroranorth on Apr 10, 2019 20:34:18 GMT -4
Bigger than that, I hope she suffers reputational damage and doesn't bounce back career-wise. I think Lori will take a big hit. Her image was the chastely pretty Christian mom figure whom everyone looked up to and liked, and now she's about to be convicted (I don't see her getting off from this, since she's too vain to take a plea.) Hallmark was her natural home, and now they're done with her. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 20:47:27 GMT -4
Will she be tried in Boston? I don't think judges or jurors in Boston will be as favorable to a celebrity as one in CA. Also, does the trial location determine where she'll be incarcerated? I think so, but I’m not 100% sure. The indictments were all filed here so it’d make sense. I doubt a judge would be willing to allow a change of venue at this point. And you are absolutely right about Bostonians, we are not easily impressed by famous people. Particularly famous people who are also rich snobs. |
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Post by Spinderella on Apr 10, 2019 21:46:33 GMT -4
Will she be tried in Boston? I don't think judges or jurors in Boston will be as favorable to a celebrity as one in CA. Also, does the trial location determine where she'll be incarcerated? That's exactly what I said a couple pages up. I don't think Boston we'll be too thrilled to give leniency to entitled celebrity brats from Los Angeles. And speaking about what I said a few posts back, looks like her Full(er) House co-stars were a little too forgiving of her publicly... Us Weekly: I feel like the prosecution is going to truly use Lori as an example. They gave these people a bone and only 13 parents took it. Now the rest I think are going to be lumped together with all the evidence for a trial that's going to get them all serving lengthy time in the big house. |
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Post by prisma on Apr 10, 2019 23:06:02 GMT -4
It just shows that these people think there's nothing they can't throw money at to get their way. I'm sure Lori thought she could buy her way out of it. I really hope they're beginning to sweat it now.
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Post by lpatrice on Apr 10, 2019 23:30:32 GMT -4
I'm normally not a fan of making an example of people, especially when it comes to the criminal justice system. But I gotta say, when it comes to Lori Laughlin, I really hope they make an example out of her and the other nitwits who didn't accept a plea deal. Let's be real here, what they did was not only wrong, but it was illegal - and they were caught red-handed. It's their privilege and smugness that makes them believe they'll get it away it. So in this case, please throw the book at her -- and then pick it up and throw it at her again.
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Post by Ginger on Apr 11, 2019 0:26:03 GMT -4
Any chance she'll just get probation? Hopefully not. Even if it's only a Paris Hilton style jailing and release due to overcrowding, she needs to get the full treatment. Mugshot, handcuffs, cavity search, itchy jumpsuit, uncomfortable bed, bad food, unending noise, grouchy cellmates, and unimpressed guards. Even if it's just for a month, I'll take it. Fortunately, that Paris Hilton crap happens at LA County Jail for DUI's. The federal justice system is totally different. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines used to be virtually mandatory and although the Supreme Court changed that in 2004, the guidelines are still followed most of the time. Only 20% of federal sentences go anywhere below the guideline range against prosecutorial recommendation. And even then, the deviation is justified in detail and subject to appellate reversal. If Lori is convicted and looking at 4 1/2 to 20 years according to the guidelines, a kindly judge is not going to decide she looks wholesome and send her home with an ankle bracelet. That stuff just doesn't happen in federal court. Also, there is no parole. She will be serving her whole sentence - minus a maximum of 15% if she behaves and earns "good time". |
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Post by Spinderella on Apr 11, 2019 0:38:52 GMT -4
If Lori is convicted and looking at 4 1/2 to 20 years according to the guidelines, a kindly judge is not going to decide she looks wholesome and send her home with an ankle bracelet. That stuff just doesn't happen in federal court. Also, there is no parole. She will be serving her whole sentence - minus a maximum of 15% if she behaves and earns "good time". GOOD! Her smugness has grated me so much. Flippant attitudes and "I can break any law for my kids, but you can't" mentality are something I deal with on the daily, living in Southern California. And I would like nothing more to see these people get the massive dose of karma. |
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Post by Babycakes on Apr 11, 2019 1:57:47 GMT -4
I keep forgetting that this isn't happening on her home turf. I keep seeing pap photos of her out and about, and thinking she's chumming the waters for a friendly California judge. I wonder what will go into determining where she'll serve time? All the entertainment shows are talking about how she should handle serving time. It's like a foregone conclusion. Since this is playing out on the East Coast, will she end up in Camp Cupcake like Martha Stewart? Or the less fancy prison that the New Jersey housewife went to?
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