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>> fellow actress lori loughlin faces more serious charges after allegedly paying half a million to get her daughters into usc and is headed towards trial. but for one actress, the legal cliffhanger coming to an end, with prison time. on a stage where the stakes were high. felicity huffman is now free to travel home to los angeles, she will need to report to federal prison, before the end of next month. then, she can begin her community service. back to you. >> thanks to miguel for that report. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning. >> good morning. >> do you feel ...

It is 13 months, and then you come to huffman, the recommended sentence was one month, and to be consistent, the sailing coach essentially got zero months, huffman should have gotten zero months. now, i can't believe the words that are coming out of my mouth when i say that 14 days is an unduly harsh sentence in the grand scheme of things, a month, 14 days, zero days, probably all of those are very, very lenient sentences, in the federal sentencing scheme, because most of the sentences in the federal system are measured in many years, possibly decades. so in the grand scheme of things, a lenie...

Subdued as the quote you just read suggests. she is hoping for leniency. her attorneys are trying to keep her out of jail and hope she only gets a sentence of community service and perhaps a fine. this, of course, is being watched closely by not just those several dozen parents who are also involved, snarled in all of the case but others as well. 51 people were arrested all together, charged all together. prior to this only one sentencing. that was for a former sailing coach at stanford university. now, the circumstances of that case are a little different. most of the money involved supposedl...

So felicity huffman having spent $15,000 to have somebody correct her daughter's s.a.t. scores is looking down the barrel at potentially a month in federal prison. so the question ends up being is it necessarily fair to punish the parent for what they did to benefit the child when somebody like the sailing coach only got a day? you also look at lori loughlin who has yet to be sentenced but she and her husband allegedly spend $500,000 to get their two daughters into college. if you look at felicity huffman you think she might be looking at a month in jail, can you only imagine what could happen...

Desperation to be a good mother i talked myself into believing that all i was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot. i see the irony in that statement now because what i have done is the opposite of fair. >> joining me now is msnbc legal contributor katie fang and criminal defense attorney ashley merchant. good morning. >> good morning. >> how likely is it that huffman actually serves jail time here, the first person sentenced in this scheme was a sailing coach from stanford, they only spent a day in jail. >> it's a good question because you want to feel like there's going to be some conseq...