Possibilities

There's a possibility I will become wealthier than Bill Gates.

There's also a possibility that I will live to 120.

There's also a possibility that I will one day score a hole in one in golf.

There's a possibility I will be struck by lightning.

It is safe to say, however, that there exists no possibility that Scott Dyleski will become a productive adult. See, he was convicted of bludgeoning to death his neighbor, in an apparent act of premeditated murder. His lawyer's understanding of probability suggests remedial math is neeced:

His lawyer pleaded with the judge to give the teen "the slimmest opportunity" of a chance at parole after he serves 25 years in prison for the brutal murder of Vitale, his 52-year-old neighbor.

"Scott Dyleski made a terrible mistake," public defender Ellen Leonida said. "There is always the possibility that he can mature into a responsible, productive citizen."

In a proper world, of course, this monster would have been sentenced to death, not life in prison, but we live not in a proper world but in the world in which our legislatures and judges have seen fit to warehouse murderers, not execute them.

Alas, it is folly to argue, even if it is one's duty to do, that one's client is redeemable. Such is the mockery of life and murder that our criminal "justice" system engages in daily.

It is also worth noting, of course, that 25 years till parole is, essentially, the same sentence about to be imposed on Jeffrey Skilling of Enron fame; to assert that fraud and murder are essentially the same, which is what sentences of equal length implicitly do, is to mock perspective.