It's not just this case it's how it often goes particularly when there is some form of notoriety about the defendant.
Is a ridiculous system when it can take months and months just to get around to sentencing but such is life.
As far as personal opinions on Jeff Hardy go Ive always found him to be very overrated due mainly to his moveset being that attention grabbing high spot style.
I'm fairly indifferent on him personally. Never been amongst my favourites but he's always been around.
That being said TLC matches, the hardcore title match against RVD at Invasion and more recently his match against Angle at No Surrender were excellent and although I haven't seen it yet his match against CM Punk in 2009 was said to be excellent also.
Whether you like him personally or not, he doesn't have to be a favourite of yours but you should respect the work he does in the ring as he is capable of putting on some entertaining matches.