Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190216:05:42:00
Years? >> you know, that's the sentencing guidelines. it's sort of a starting point where judges are supposed to look to calculate a sentence. it's a very numerical score. all these kinds of things. you come up with kind of a math score and you go to a table and that's where you get that range of 19 to 24. then the judge is allowed to consider mig gating factors and aggravating factors to decide whether the sentence should be a little bit below that or a little bit above that. based on this filing, they can't think of any mitigating factors, there are aggravating factors for someone who is ver...