Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More

ponraul writes "When Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., 58, sentenced Hillary Transue, 17, on a harassment charge stemming from a MySpace parody of her high school's assistant principal, Hillary expected to be let off with a stern lecture; instead, the Wilkes-Barre, PA area teen got three months in a commercially operated juvenile detention center. In a reversal of fortune, Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Conahan, 56, find themselves trying to plea-bargain an 87-month sentence in Federal correctional facilities relating to a kick-back scheme that netted the pair $2.6 Million and PA Child Care 5000 inmates." True poetic justice would be for these corrupt, callous judges to serve their sentences in the same kind of environment to which they were happy to dispatch juvenile defendants.

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Re:Recourse

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Poetic justice?

[spun]

I know, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to conflate relatively sane beliefs like 'the moon landing was a hoax,' 'God buried dinosaur bones to confuse us' or 'the earth is flat' with completely insane beliefs like 'an unregulated market is the best for everyone.'