The court sentences the defendent to…

Occasionally I read the court notes in our local paper and it always winds my shorts:

  • 4 years in prison = posessing more than 10 grams of marijuana

  • 2 years in prison = beating a woman
  • 2.5 years in prison = posessing less than 15 grams of cocaine
  • 2.5 years probation = attempting to rob a pizza deliveryman

Does something seem a little out of balance here?