He will also receive a 5 year period of supervised release tacked onto and counting toward his sentence. Jerry has been imprisoned for seven years and will not be released from custody until May of 2012 and this, my friends, is justice in America, the Land of the Free. And you pay for it out the nose. You pay for a sentencing scheme that could have been devised by either Genghis Khan or the village idiot. Many people petitioned the court for leniency in Jerry's case and nine of the twelve jurists, once they found out the horrible result of their verdict, asked the court for mitigation of sentence.
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