{"id":38853,"date":"2019-09-14T04:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T04:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38853"},"modified":"2019-09-14T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T04:09:31","slug":"has-justice-really-been-delivered-to-felicity-huffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38853","title":{"rendered":"Has justice really been delivered to Felicity Huffman?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve been pretty quiet about the school admitting scandal that has swallowed the careers of two prominent Hollywood entertainers: Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman. Of course, there have been many others caught up in this scandal.<\/p>\n

I have been trying to come to grips with the sentence handed down to Huffman. To be totally candid, I am having trouble believing justice was really delivered to this individual.<\/p>\n

She arranged for her daughter to get admitted to a university; she arranged to manipulate her SAT score. She paid some huckster a five-figure sum to assist in this travesty.<\/p>\n

What did she get? Fourteen days in prison; a $30,000 fine; a year of supervised release; a term of community service.<\/p>\n

Why just 14 days? That’s weird, in my humble view. It seems the sentence might as well have been for 20 minutes<\/em> in the slammer.<\/p>\n

Her lawyers argued she didn’t deserve any time, as it was her “first offense.” Huffman has been contrite. She apologized to the court, to her husband — actor William H. Macy — her daughter, to the world.<\/p>\n

Loughlin, meanwhile, has stood by her innocence, challenging the system to put her on trial.<\/p>\n

Huffman told the judge she would “try to live a more honest life.” When someone says they’ll “try” to do something, I often take that as a sort of code that they cannot promise to actually carry through with a rock-solid pledge.<\/p>\n

There’s just something so very token about a two-week prison sentence. I am unclear what the judge is seeking to do with a wrist-slap on the arm of a wealthy actress.<\/p>\n

Let’s just say that other “first offenders” have gotten far worse punishments for far less crimes.<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve been pretty quiet about the school admitting scandal that has swallowed the careers of two prominent Hollywood entertainers: Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman. Of course, there have been many others caught up in this scandal. I have been trying to come to grips with the sentence handed down to Huffman. To be totally candid, … Continue reading Has justice really been delivered to Felicity Huffman?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8474,8475,8920,8921],"class_list":["post-38853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-college-admission-scandal","tag-felicity-huffman","tag-lori-loughlin","tag-sat-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38855,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}