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Norway crown princess’ son convicted of rape, sentenced to 4 years in prison

Marius Borg Hoiby had pleaded not guilty to the most severe accusations against him, including those of rape, while admitting to some lesser ones, and can appeal the verdict.

The stepson of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon has been found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of domestic violence and other crimes and is sentenced to four years in prison, an Oslo court ruled on Monday.

Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, who joined the royal family when his mother Mette-Marit married Haakon in 2001, was acquitted on two other accounts of rape.

He had pleaded not guilty to the most severe accusations against him, including those of rape, while admitting to some lesser ones, and can appeal the verdict.

Prosecutors had asked that Hoiby should be sentenced to seven years and seven months of prison.

Norway crown princess’ son convicted of rape, sentenced to 4 years in prison

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Adding to the other reply, it should also be noted that he has already been in custody for quite some time before and during the trial. A petition for release was also denied. All this to say that he is apparently not given special treatment!

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nogooduser

You have to fuck with other connected people then it becomes a game of top trumps.

For example, I’m sure that Sam Bankman-Fried wouldn’t have been convicted had he only defrauded ordinary people.

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It's Norway, from what I understand even the worst Norwegian prison is vastly nicer than studio apartments in the average American city. So I suppose it depends on what your definition of "ordinary prison" is.
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comrade_twisty

In most European countries prisons provide good living conditions and are safe places because the goal is to reintroduce people into society as better persons after they served their time. Not brutalize them and make them outcasts that basically can only reoffemd if they want to survive.
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msage

Which is kinda counter-intuitive now that I think about it... if your life sucks outside of prison, getting back would be a priority.

How much better do those countries life if those prisons are undesirable?

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untorquer

I don't think it's counter-intuitive.

US prison causes severe trauma. Prisoners learn to survive in an environment where you have to engage in aggressive behavior just to get through their morning. Everything is taken from them, no opportunity for personal development, and they're thrown on the street with zero resources after. It's practically designed to force people to repeat the cycle and feed the prison system.

It's profitable too, 14th amendment and all. A prison company wouldn't want to reduce it's slave labor force so there's no incentive to do better. Historically it's an easy win for politicians too.

While I'm not a fan of most carceral systems at least the Norwegian one tries not to treat people like livestock.

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OddMinus1

Unless more documents are released, there isn't really much more to go by. She made some poor judgements of what person she was dealing with, but it didn't seem like she was guilty to anything illegal. A lot of organizations which had her as a member of honor have recalled her membership. A lot of trust has been lost, and polls have shifted a bit towards abolishing the current monarchy.

But it's hardly a topic now. The crown princess is currently dealing with pulmonary fibrosis and requires a lung transplant. So the focus has shifted a lot recently.

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shawn1122

For a total of 40 charges seems iffy but Norways legal system uses concurrent sentencing.

The court determines a sentence based on the most severe crime (the rapes) and absorbs the lesser offenses (the drug and domestic abuse charges) into that timeframe, adding only a marginal amount of extra time.