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08-29-2007, 05:44 AM
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How many sklansky years for your morals?
I'm pretty into law dramas like the practice/ boston legal. and often in the show the lawyer would recommend that they take the deal but the client would stubbornly decline saying they can't go against their morals/integrity. Obviously the deal they offer is something like this:
if you take the deal it's 2 years, if you take it to the juries it's approximately 90% you get 5 years and 10% you go free. 5 x 90% =4.5 years, 4.5-2= 2.5 so that's 2.5 sklansky years you'd have to pay for your sense of integrity/morality. obv in the show they defy the odds and chalk it to variance but I was wondering what I'd do in similar situation. I think I'll take the deal if it is significantly +EV (ie: 5 years+) but not too sure if that's the right thing to do at all. so how about you guys? 
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08-29-2007, 06:56 AM
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Re: How many sklansky years for your morals?
The answer for me would depend heavily on how much of an imposition it is being a felon in the country in question. I might even be willing to go -EV on sklansky years if I could plead guilty and get no conviction recorded, if being a felon were going to make it impossible for me to get a job etc etc.
Assuming no downside to being a felon, there's no way my integrity is worth more than a few months of EV.
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08-29-2007, 09:03 AM
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Re: How many sklansky years for your morals?
Well, I think if the sentence is only 5 years, and it's a serious crime, then it would be mega +life ev to fight it, if I have any significant chance of winning. Having a serious criminal conviction on your record could ruin my life. I'm 23 years old, and not wealthy. If I was much older or wealthy, then I take the deal.
However, if they allow me to plead down, as well as reduce the sentence, then GOGOGO.
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08-29-2007, 09:06 AM
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Re: How many sklansky years for your morals?
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Assuming no downside to being a felon, there's no way my integrity is worth more than a few months of EV [/ QUOTE ] this is the correct answer.
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08-29-2007, 12:38 PM
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Re: How many sklansky years for your morals?
You really should've added a ZERO option.
In any case, voted NONE, not because of morals, but because I'd rather die than go to prison for a couple of years, so it's a no brainer for me. I'll take any chance I have of avoiding it, however small.
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08-29-2007, 02:32 PM
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Re: How many sklansky years for your morals?
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[ QUOTE ] Assuming no downside to being a felon, there's no way my integrity is worth more than a few months of EV [/ QUOTE ] this is the correct answer. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed, but it's obviously a bad assumption in real life. You can't really talk EV in numbers, when the units on both sides are vastly different. An extra year in jail is much less significant than a 1 year sentence in jail never occurring.
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