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Eminently reasonable, even-handed, and literate.  So much appreciated!
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I like your analogy of the iPhone 6.  Still and all, there we are talking about products, not people.
 If your legal firm decides that you deserve 2 weeks without pay for a DUI, and you also pay the DUI state penalty, and then MADD calls for you to be disbarred etc ... in my mind, for the sheriff to throw the prisoner out to the crowd, that's another subject.  The sheriff has already decided what is fair punishment -- as Rice originally got the 2-game ban -- and now he is going to release the prisoner to the will of the crowd?
Pandering to public opinion always gets into gray areas.  The very last area I would cave in on, personally, would be the question of what punishment my employees deserve.  When does integrity come into question?
The NFL, of course, has no such principles, and no integrity that I can perceive.  Whatever chings the cash register is what will be implemented.
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I guess the spirit of the "Double Jeopardy" concept is what provokes me here, emotionally.  (I mean, double jeopardy apparently means if you're found *innocent,* then the state doesn't get a second crack at you, but still ...)
From the standpoint of NOW -- that is really my interest here, the lynch mob POV -- it is totally irrelevant whether a judge is going to determine Punishment X as "just."  NOW is interested in maximum pain, maximum suffering, and it will go into a rage at those who dare enter a defense on the behalf of the accused.
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That's what's blotting out the sun for me.  Your treatment is far more balanced.