UA loopholed around the standard punishments
How is Bakugou's punishment so light when characters are directly addressing his actions as attempted murder? A month's detention and no sports festival—for nearly killing one classmate and trying to kill another? One of which is a crime that usually merits a significant prison sentence? Word of God says Nezu is aware Bakugou could easily go vigilante or villain, but the punishments are standardized, so Nezu's desires shouldn't have an impact on what the punishment is if they're going by the book. Yet there is no way a month of detention and the loss of an extracurricular is internationally agreed to be fit punishment for attempted murder. Best guess? They used an old lawyer's trick: instead of changing the punishments prescribed, Nezu argued for the least severe label for what Bakugou has done wrong: something like "reckless use of force which resulted in severe injury." By filing this as a lesser offense on the books, UA can give him a lighter punishment, even if everybody verbally acknowledges he actually committed a much worse offense. In other words, Bakugou's probably still not being punished for trying to kill Izuku.- And when Bakugou's history in Aldera comes out—which it will, since the HPSC has already set its mind to investigating—advocating for this light punishment without bothering to confirm whether it's a "first offense" might make the rest of UA look like it's favoring Bakugou too, at least to the public.
