Here's another one I feel a bit uneasy about. Stupid and offensive, yes, but 8 months in jail?
4 months of that was for breaching of a suspended sentence for cannabis possession.
Ah much better, only 4 months for the "offensive behavior" then.
It's actually an 8 month sentence for the offensive behavior; the other 4 month charge is concurrent.
While the sentence is a bit harsh, I'm pretty sure something like this would be prosecuted similarly in the United States. I'd argue wearing and publicly displaying a shirt that reads "One Less Pig, Perfect Justice" and "Kill A Cop For Fun," immediately after two local cops were killed in the line of duty, would quite obviously be "fighting words" which aren't Constitutionally protected. Under Georgia law it'd count as "disorderly conduct" which carries a maximum sentence of a year in county jail.
Yes, I'm not really trying to argue that this shouldn't be illegal, but to me a prison sentence for it seems over the top.
