You're right, here in Spain if you don't have prior convictions don't go to jail for a sentence under 2 years.
Her sentence include 7 years of disqualification for public employments > El 31 mar 2017, a las 0:53, Marc Juul <j...@labitat.dk> escribió: > > > >> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:08 PM, F LM <flucom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In the same article: >> >> "She is unlikely to go to jail because those convicted of non-violent crimes >> with a sentence of under two years are not imprisoned." > > Not read up on spanish law and not a lawyer but I believe this is type of > thing is common in other European countries. As a Dane it's not surprising > that someone is given a jail sentence that they don't end up serving. Just > because she gets a pass from serving her prison term now (which is likely > dependent on her having no prior convictions) any future convictions may > cause her to have to serve the full term. She has technically been given a > jail term but may get out of serving it if certain conditions are met in the > past and in the future. The fact that she has been sentenced to jail, even if > she doesn't end up serving the sentence, will likely limit her access to > certain types of jobs and opportunities as well. I agree that this could be > more confusing for people from other legal regimes, but I don't believe most > northern europeans would find the headline especially misleading. > > -- > marc/juul > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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