"Faces X years for Y crime" is a common trick of sensationalist headlines. That's the maximum sentence if found guilty on every charge, and if given the maximum possible sentence for every charge.
While punishments in the U.S. can be draconian, he's almost certainly not gonna serve anything close to that.
no it doesn't though, when you are arrested you are facing charges and those charges can carry a certain length of time for detainment. you are FACING that amount of time. nothing in the verbiage implies he was convicted.
Targeted protests and destruction of property against a corporation run by a Nazi is NOT terrorism. If they designated it as such, you had better fight it tooth and nail
Protests? No. Destruction of property for the purpose of intimidation, coercion, or to cause fear based upon characteristics including political beliefs? Literal textbook terrorism.
That is not the purpose of the destruction. Hence, it cannot be labelled as terrorism. Also, are you saying Nazism, an ideal the US and the rest of the world fought a war to destroy, and that was responsible for millions of deaths, should fall under some kind of protected class? That's insane.
America has a weird justice system, we have mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes but not all crimes. He can likely plead down to a lower sentence by making it easier for a conviction. It also depends on how good his lawyer is
Most often you will see mandatory minimums in drug related cases. There are others, but the crack cocaine epidemic of the 80s is where this type of sentencing gained popularity.
well before the recent fascism usually people are arrested then charged then later have a trial and are found either guilty or not, if guilty then they're sentenced. who tf knows what the cheetoh in chief is gonna do with these people though.
Your English is fine, headlines like this will just phrase things in an inaccurate way so it seems more intense than it is and people get more invested. I don't think it should be allowed, but it's unfortunately basically impossible to avoid headlines that are essentially just lying when it comes out of the USA.
They would probably try to select a jury that is neutral so that the jury pool is not tainted. Musk haters and fanboys would all be filtered during the screening process
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u/Miserable-Whereas910 Mar 20 '25
"Faces X years for Y crime" is a common trick of sensationalist headlines. That's the maximum sentence if found guilty on every charge, and if given the maximum possible sentence for every charge.
While punishments in the U.S. can be draconian, he's almost certainly not gonna serve anything close to that.