In many countries incl the US of Arseholes... them old fuddy-duddy Judges are the ones that are the worst of them lot!!!
They are like the Khomeini Mullahs... completely out of touch with pragmatic reality and many too are darn perverts themselves... only the crafty, sinful SOB seems to get off the hook somehow knowing just how to beat the system and Law as they are themselves screwing the Legal system to their own benefit from where they are seated.
That colored man's sentence was harsh and it doesn't surprise me it was ruled by a nasty white cnut of a Judge that hates colored people!