Paul Manafort Sentence Highlights Inequality In Justice System

David Lauter, Los Angeles Times: Politics
Fri, 03/08/2019 - 9:20am

By many standards, four years in prison is a tough sentence for a 69-year-old man with no prior criminal convictions. Not, however, by the standard typically used for criminal defendants in much of the United States, where courts routinely hands out sentences harsher than those imposed in many...

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Paul Manafort Sentence Highlights Inequality In Justice System

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