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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think she should get jail time. I don't see the point of that. Financial restitution and community service. [/quote]

The point is deterrence. This is a high publicity case. What is the message if she does not get any jail time?[/quote]

I think the high publicity aspect always is problematic for justice. I don't think she should receive a harsher sentence because she is famous or has publicity. she should get a similar sentence as someone else with her wealth / attorney skills who committed a fraud type crime in the $15000 range for personal gain (eg. victimless - in that she didn't steal from someone). I am never a fan of using the justice system as a means to make an example of people.

Deterrence is really not effective. The next person will do it differently / think they won't get caught. There were many non celebrities in this group - we hear nothing about them. Most regular folks who aren't celebrities won't take anything from this. Celebrities will continue to find ways to buy their way around a system - they will just pay more to have someone do it better.[/quote]

It’s not a victimless crime though. Through fraud, she stole a spot for her child that should have gone to someone else.[/quote]

A lot of kids are only in their college spots because of their parents money - through buying the private education, tutoring, extracurriculars, donations, paying tuition - that got them there. Are they stealing a spot from the super smart kid who is low SES who went to a not so good public and worked two jobs and never did any extras?

Money buys many entrances to college.

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None of the above constitutes underhanded cheating...FRAUD.  No, what Huffman did is not the same thing.  That is why people who commit fraud go to jail while people who get tutors for their children do not.  You might like to think it's "the same" but it is not.

Cheating on the SAT by paying someone else to "correct" your child's answers is not the same thing as sending your child to an SAT prep class that will enable your child to perform well independently on the SAT.

A kid who takes it upon himself to do the SAT prep on Kahn is not cheating.  The kid who copies the answers of another test taker is cheating.

That this is so hard for some people to comprehend is just really, really sad.[/quote]

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