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Message:: [QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7950599, member: 84905"]Imagine, instead of antiquities he had faked dollar bills. The state would not have shown so much leniency, I think. As for the victims of this crime, it is possible that there is a serves-them-right kind of  attitude involved. When I was a victim of a burglary in London in which some of my coins were stolen, I experienced the same thing. Some of the coins had been offered for sale at a London coin store. The prospective sellers raised the owner's suspicious, because they were black and he said that he never had a black customer in 30 years. I know this is very politically incorrect, but as it turns out his suspicion was right. They tried to sell some of my coins that had been stolen just 1 or 2 days earlier. In court, however, the defence lawyer managed to turn the mood against me, by indicating that it was morally questionable to own historical coins in the first place. She even attacked my credibility. After the judge had addressed me as "Doctor ..." , she asked if I was a medical doctor. When I said that I wasn't (Phd in Economics), she turned to the jury and said that I wasn't a real doctor then. It was a very humiliating experience, especially since the two defendants sat their smirking and going free (because of a formal mistake by the police).[/QUOTE]