Actually, in both the case of Jonathan Pollard and the case of the Bochurim in Japan, there seemed to have been significant stupidity on the part of the defendants — in Pollard’s case thinking he could get a better sentence by building up media pressure, in violation of his agreement and against the desire of his lawyers, and in the Japan case by not realizing that deals too good to be true usually aren’t — but the punishment for stupidity is not life in prison.
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