People are supposed to be reasonable and not jail an 18-yr-old for consentual sex with his 17-yr-old girlfriend. But we don't have reasonableness in courts of law, or even the concept of it, any longer. Lawyers can just do whatever.
Because, whatever a judge's personal feelings toward a defendant may be, he or she is only there to uphold the law as it is written, which cannot possibly account for all the nuances present in any given case.
People are supposed to be reasonable and not jail an 18-yr-old for consentual sex with his 17-yr-old girlfriend. But we don't have reasonableness in courts of law, or even the concept of it, any longer. Lawyers can just do whatever.
Because, whatever a judge's personal feelings toward a defendant may be, he or she is only there to uphold the law as it is written, which cannot possibly account for all the nuances present in any given case.