It's been a while since I looked into it... but I seem to recall it had something to do with a loop hole/semantics in regards to Parole... as well as being cumulative for a number of Crimes... if Crime X has a basic sentence of 50 years., but you did it 5 times you 'earned' 250 years... if incident #5 is later found to be tainted they can strike those 50 years off and you're still properly punished... just giving you the 50 years which might be equal to life, essentially means that each crime was really only worth 10 years... which could be used by the next Lawyer of the next Criminal as a precedent for a 10 year sentence
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