L'il Kim, a black rapper, got the proverbial year and a day in an urban lockup for...lying to prosecutors.
Martha Stewart, a white homemaker-turned-businesswoman got 5 months in a minimum security prison camp for...lying to prosecutors.
to his credit, the judge did seem to see the similarities.
He [the judge] also considered how his sentence on "a young, black woman entertainer" would be perceived in the wake of the Martha Stewart perjury trial, which centered on "an older white woman entertainer."
Stewart spent five months in prison and five months home confinement for lying about insider trading. Prosecutors in Jones' case were pushing for 33 to 41 months prison time.
"Do you think I could justify to the newspaper-reading public why [Jones] gets a sentence seven to eight times higher?" Lynch asked prosecutors. He agreed with them, however, that Jones' case was "unquestionably a more serious case" because she perjured herself to protect "people carrying machine guns and shooting at people."
to his further credit, i suppose, the judge did reduce the requested sentence.
black man still looking for a fair trial, i guess.
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