Yeah, I’m just heading off at the pass any attempt to move goalposts towards a more subtle discussion of age of consent laws. I’m willing to stipulate that some age of consent laws do harm, but there’s no slippery slope from that to this case.
If I were a lawmaker I’d be looking to reduce maximum sentences for crimes in America across the board. But, like I said, this isn’t a case I’d use as an example of why that needs to be done.
It seems a little crazy for someone to be getting upset about how big a sentence this guy could get when we don’t know if he’ll be convicted or what sentence he will get. Unless America is even more crazy that I imagine the idea of a “maximum” sentence is that you don’t give it out every time. While America has a problem with oversentencing in general, this guy sort of hits the middle of the Venn diagram for things that shield a person from that trend.
