Tho I agree with the comment above that strict justice demands that an offender should in legal theory only ever be punished for the specific crime with which he is instantly charged, I would refer back to the old 'Georg Davis Is Innocent' thread; where the point was made that the reason Davis was probably not guilty of the offence for which he was sentenced was that he was committing another crime somewhere else at that very time: nobody, including himself, claimed that he was other than a career-criminal. Without wishing to push comparisons too far, it appears that there may be some conclusions to be drawn from that case in relation to the subject of the present thread.

~M~