u/Adept-Raspberry-4681

I read the local news regularly and noticed in the past few months 2 people were convicted of the same crime but had drastically different sentences. One person was sentenced to about a year the other person almost a decade. Both plead guilty.

I tried to research this through google and saw a lot of variation in sentencing for other people too. I know somethings can affect it like being convicted of other things on top of that or the amount of evidence available but is that all it is? It seems like even very similar cases have a huge range