I find our American system of justice, well strange. The charge of insider trading was dropped; but Martha was convicted of lying to investigators about a "legal" trade, conspiracy, etc. The trade in question was $40,000.
A few months ago, five executives of HealthSouth were convicted of fraud to the tune of $3 billion. Sentences were around 5 months of home confinement. Oh yeah, these felons neither came forward about their fraud nor provided truthful information to investigators after arrest.
A techie might approach comparable sentencing one of two ways:
$3,000,000,000/$40,000 x 5 months prison time = 31,250 years for the HealthSouth felons. Nice guy that I am I would let them split the calculated sentence among them.
or using the home arrest model
$40,000/$3,000,000,000 x 5 months home arrest = 2.94 seconds of home arrest for Martha.
I wonder how many times and with whom the Alabama judge went duck hunting. Something does not compute.
jay