It's funny that the court would explicitly legitimize the idea that some people deserve to be "socially impaired" and others do not despite committing exactly the same crime.

Funny in the sense that it contradicts the entire foundation that the legal system is based on and makes the court look illegitimate and deliberately corrupt.

I’m sure this concept of non-punishment will now be applied to many other cases across social classes, right?

Right…?

Hey, it worked great when Susan Collins took that approach with orangeboi in his first term, didn’t it?

…didn’t it…?

It's a bit like the old sitcom "Night Court" where the judge would find the ladies of the evening guilty as charged and turn them loose with "time served" as their penalty.

This "lack of sentence" is a bit more than time served since the penalty for this crime can still be applied at any time if the offender is in court for anything else.

It's overly lenient and a bad message, but better than letting off manslaughter charges for a defense of "affluenza." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43621839