Talk:Joyce Karlin Fahey

BLP
Is it a BLP violation not to include "alleged" before "light sentencing"? Can we discuss this instead of warring over it? Sro23 (talk) 16:55, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we should re-word it, it is factually a 'light sentence' compared to what the jury recommended (16 years in prison vs 5 years of probation/400 hours community service/$500 fine), which seems to have been at least a part of the cause of outrage. FT 1339 (talk) 08:11, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I know this is an old comment, but in case you're still around: Going by Talk:Killing of Latasha Harlins, there doesn't seem to be any sources presented so far establishing a jury recommendation. If you have such sources, it would be great if you could present them. They would be useful for the other article if not this one. Nil Einne (talk) 10:01, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Jewish American
Why isn't Karlin's Jewish heritage noted here? Wikipedia articles mention heritage all the time and classifies individuals as such all the time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.61.255.230 (talk) 12:17, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
 * We only do so when there are sources establishing it's of sufficient relevance. If you have such sources, present them and we can add it. Per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS you should take care when comparing to other articles, partially because each case is different so the circumstances especially the sources need to be consider. But also because we have plenty of articles which do stuff they shouldn't. Nil Einne (talk) 09:58, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

No jail time?
While the sources used do claim no jail time, is this accurate? Killing of Latasha Harlins claims Du was sentence to time served. Unfortunately the sources are too unreliable for me to be willing to copy them to here, but it sounds fairly plausible. Time served may be no additional jail time, but I'm not sure if "no jail time" is accurate. For example, if she spent 12 months in jail awaiting her trial, conviction and sentencing, I assume this would be counted as serving a custodial sentence of a year. By comparison, if someone is acquitted or they receive no custodial sentence not even time served, they would have no jail sentence and for example could accurately say they have never served a custodial sentence as the time spent awaiting trial isn't counted. BTW, I chose the 12 months thing for a reason as in some countries it's the threshold where it would prevent any visa on character grounds especially if a recent conviction, to demonstrate it's not simply a distinction without a difference. Nil Einne (talk) 09:55, 22 March 2021 (UTC)