I've always found it completely ridiculous that in the American justice system you can get additional time above the maximum per criminal act. When they recite the verdict they always say 1 count of this 2 counts of that and so on. I've participated in a number of cases at EU courts and here if you deal drugs and the sentence is for instance 2-10 years, you can't get anything above that. In the US that sentence can be multiplied if they are able to make an "extreme dealer" out of you and break your actions into multiple offences As a result they can get you to serve 50 years in prison if they choose to for an offence that in other countries would put you away for 10.

Also, their sentences higher than life are laughable. How can a sane person give a verdict of 2 life sentences and 40 years? After the mere 40 years in the shitholes that US prisons are Ross will be dead anyway.