Prison for Shepard Fairey?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

SEPTEMBER 5--Federal prosecutors want Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the Barack Obama “Hope” poster, to serve time in prison following his misdemeanor conviction for destroying and fabricating documents in connection with a civil lawsuit over the iconic campaign image.

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However, prosecutors did not specify how long Fairey should be incarcerated (though, statutorily, his punishment would not exceed six months). Additionally, government lawyers have contended that Judge Frank Maas could fine Fairey up to $3.2 million.

“A sentence without any term of imprisonment sends a terrible message to those who might commit the same sort of criminal conduct,” wrote prosecutor Daniel Levy in a September 2 memo. “Encouraging parties to game the civil litigation system…creates terrible incentives and subverts the truth-finding function of civil litigation.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/shepard-fairey-sentencing-report-683412

I understand destroying evidence is pretty darned serious but this seems heavy-handed.

[datasuspect]

1. make banksy his cellie and you got a deal

film at 11

[n2doc]

2. But KKKarl Rove, the CIA torturers and Mozillo the bankster go free

Some justice system we have. Obama should pardon him, just to pay back the boost he got in 08 from SF's poster.