Sentencing Guidelines - Is Max Well Going to Co Opera?

The judge is authorized to take into account the defendant's background and upbringing. But as gill points out, under the sentencing guide lines, they're accelerating factors. And so your sentencing guide line range can be increased because you had, for instance, more victims. In a case like this one, where you have a lot of additional victims, there will be a real fight between the defence and the prosecution about what conduct is fair game. So we could all be in for a real education about the sentencing process - maybe even some fresh legal ground that's going to be interesting.