The trial portion is over, she doesn’t need to put up with as much anymore.
Exactly. Very no-nonsense. She’s really got good control of herself.
He’s going to release all that pent up energy on the judge for his appeal. The judge for that case has some big shoes to fill.
I don’t know if the judge will allow him to get a lawyer for appeal or if he will ask for one.
Either way, I suspect his appeal isn’t going to work and may just get tossed. If he tries himself, it’s just going to be Sov Cit ramblings.
Even with an attorney, the prosecution did a fantastic job and the judge was very careful. There’s not much to appeal.
The flag in the courtroom was totally lacking a fringe?
The defendant here is the last person who should be complaining about fringe.
i don’t believe i’ve ever heard of someone getting over 700 years in a sentence.
Oh, there’s competition:
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/criminal-defense/5-longest-prison-sentences-in-us-history/
My favorite line:
"McLaurin’s original sentence of 21,250 years was reduced by 500 years on appeal.
Brooks did attempt to argue that his time served should offset one year of the sentence.
i sit corrected. that is some reduction there.
Yes, 20,750 years is much more tolerable. 
Wonder if anyone ever wrote a sci-fi story about some breakthrough in human lifespan expansion which accounts for such criminals getting out after thousands of years. Or something with that general thought nugget.
i picture a coffin or urn in a little cell, carrying out the remainder of the sentence. hhhmm, maybe stuffed or frozen in a tank…
Barry Sadler could have done that with Casca.
Tangentially related, but in The Good Place they learned that one of the reasons Michael had problems understanding ethics and morality was because he was immortal. He could do something objectively bad and, given enough time, no one cares.
As long as he can live forever, there really aren’t any consequences. Who cares if you’re in jail for 20,000 years if you’re already 13 billion years old.
I read a bit of Tumblr fiction just the other day that played off this theme, but in a fantasy setting. A terrible monster is bound in the palace dungeons for a thousand years. 999 years later, nobody remembers why the monster was bound down there, but they know the spell’s about to wear off.
No idea how to find it again, of course.
I remember reading a short story about someone who was sentenced to some incredibly long time in prison, but the prison was a virtual one in his mind. He experienced his complete sentence (to him, it felt like however long it was supposed to be), but it was only a few seconds or minutes long in real time.
Paging @Andy_L, does this sound familiar to you?
This almost sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. I haven’t watched it in years, but something like it sounds familiar.
I’ve only ever seen one episode of Black Mirror, and it was this plot exactly.
Also showed up in an episode of Deep Space 9.
“The House of If” by Barry Longyear, if the guy was an escape expert.
Also the exact plot of an Outer Limits episode, “The Sentence.”
In a near future plagued by prison overcrowding, Dr. Henson presents his new invention—a virtual prison where a subject’s feelings of guilt literally convict them by subjecting them to a lifetime of imprisonment in a matter of minutes