this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
186 points (96.5% liked)
Not The Onion
22670 readers
848 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Can they not try him for multiple counts of animal abuse? In the US, for some crimes, you'd stack the charges, a sentence might be for 3 years, but with 4 counts of the crime you'd be looking at more like 12.
Even in the US most sentences don't stack consecutively like this. In many other countries, they never stack like this.
The US is an outlier, most countries cannot do this. Because otherwise you could be jailed for years if you shoplift ten times or something.
The upper limit is usually only used for sentencing if it's a repeat offender or if occured multiple times.
Well with shoplifting, aren't the penalties correlated with the value of the items stolen?
And if you then went on to do it again the next day, and got cought, I imagine the combined value of the stolen items would be considered in the case.