Legal Question in Criminal Law in Colorado

Re: Sentencing

It's mainly because most rappers can find significantly more words to rhyme with "day" than "year."

The legal reason, though, is that a sentence of more than one year makes him eligible for early release, whereas if he had been sentenced to a year or less, he would have had to serve the whole amount.

Re: Sentencing

There are state licensing impacts as well as sentencing impacts if you are sentenced to serve "more than a year". A year and a day = more than a year.