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Kiran Kaur Could Be Released Early After July Sentence
· New York time
Kiran Kaur, the mother of Henry Nowak's killer, could be released early, the BBC reports. Kaur, 53, was found guilty of assisting an offender and was jailed for three years in July. The established legal facts are the conviction and sentence. Early release is described as a possibility, not an announcement that she has already left custody or that a release date has been fixed. The case illustrates how a sentence and the time ultimately spent in custody can become separate public questions. The possibility now being reported concerns the latter. Legal calendars have an unfortunate talent for looking simpler from a distance. Here, the July sentence is a completed event; the potential early release remains conditional, however decisively a calendar might prefer to fill its next square.
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