PEACE said. . .

Terrible sentence. However . . . .

Peace, I don't know whether you're talking about someone's writing style or the possible penalty for the charges brought against the defendant.

If the latter, one should never take at face value such statements as "he could receive X years" or "could cost him Y" period of time. The operative word is "could".

Those statements in newspaper stories are almost invariably technically true but false as a real prospective penalty. The writer takes the maximum penalties for each charge and adds them up to a frightening total and prints it. But the Court in most cases has wide, wide latitude, both as to length of imprisonment term to be imposed for each charge and whether the sentences are to run concurrently, which is very common.

Supposing he's convicted of all charges, I'd be surprised if he received more than say 20 years (instead of ninety-some), and possibly a good deal less.

Dave Oesterreich