“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
Oscar Wilde
“[The ESA called the sentencing] a clarion warning for others contemplating computer and video game piracy, ... sentences of this magnitude send a clear message to game retailers that selling pirate products has serious consequences, including prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.”
Douglas Lowenstein
“You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.”
Jeff Sessions
“These sentences frankly are out of control. You get a sentence that's akin to what you would get for a homicide or for rape. In a white collar case, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.”
David Gourevitch
“The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in Mississippi.”
Larry Knight
“It's not uncommon for them to serve short sentences, if they serve any sentence at all. That's not unusual nationwide. The guidelines the courts are bound by are not as strict as they probably should be.”
Maj. Greg Baker