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Comment by sschueller | Hacker News Reader

Has time inflated as well like the Turkish currency? These numbers are stupid and make the courts look like a bunch of children.

Just as dumb as a double or triple life sentence.

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Double or triple life sentences matter in most jurisdictions. First, "life sentence" in many places means something like "life sentence, or 20 years with good behavior or parole", so a double life sentence makes release less likely. Second, multiple life sentences usually come from different instances of the offense, so it reduces the chance that a single appeal or reversal will release the convict (for example, someone who gets 4 life sentences for killing four people and then it's discovered that one of the victims actually died of something else, the convict would still have 3 life sentences to serve).

Triple life sentences are not dumb...

Lets say you murder 3 people, go to trial and are convicted on 3 counts and given 3 life sentences.

Then lets say one of the sentences is overturned/appealed the others can still stand.

Now 11k seems rather insane, but if you commit 11 thousand infractions and each one comes with a years sentence then you can get weird outcomes like this. That or the court system is insane, I don't have any interest in learning Turkish law at this point to see which one applies here.

he shut down an exchange with 2 billion dollars in assets in it... that's almost certainly a lot of different counts of whatever they charged him with. ianal but each person in the exchange that he defrauded probably gets a charge.

The Turkish justice system is a joke, between good behaviour and prison overcrowding, I bet he won't even serve 1% of his 11,196 year sentence.

1% of 11196 would be 112 years, so I expect he won't serve 1% of his sentence regardless. Or is that the joke you were intending to make?

He would be pretty lucky if he got to serve 1% of such a sentence.

> Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing ... without access to deposits of $2 billion in cryptocurrencies.

A billion is a thousand million. 5.5 years per million stolen isn't that much.

The Turkish justice system metes out stiff sentences, then reduces or pardons them outright later.

Let me guess. You like crypto.

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