>>However, it also amazes me when people consider time served trivial if it isn't life or the full amount of the original sentence.
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>I'm amazed that the words "original sentence" is used. "40 years, 1 day, 3 hours, 2 minutes and 16 seconds", now that would be original. Exactly 40 years, not.
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>>Now imagine you had been in prison ever since. Would you consider that a light sentence?
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>Nope, it has the dark overtones, no matter how much it calls for imagination.

But a lager taste can be found as well.