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MarcoPogo 6 months, 1 week ago
What a surprising outcome...
somedude20 6 months, 1 week ago
Wow...holy wow!!!!
So a robbery in which a gun was used to assault an individual and then said gun was fired during the course of the robbery and the assailant was sentenced to 3 years of hard probation....wow, stiff punishment.....hope the book didn't hurt him when it was thrown at him
Keith 6 months, 1 week ago
They threw a paperback at him, so he wouldn't be hurt.
mommatocharlie 6 months, 1 week ago
actually, I heard a small ouch as the hand slapped his.
cheeseburger 6 months, 1 week ago
I cannot freaking believe it.
Why do we even bother to have a DA or judges in this county - let's just let everyone do whatever the heck it is they want to without consequences or ramifications. That's basically what's happening now.
catiefan 6 months, 1 week ago
The judge and the D.A. can only enforce existing law. And they are further constrained by the sentencing guidelines.
If you do not like the laws and/or the sentencing guidelines, then the legislators are the ones you need to yell at.
neworleans 6 months, 1 week ago
Wow; light punishment................
bearded_gnome 6 months, 1 week ago
the guidelines didn't force judge peggy kittel to give probation!
remember, we can vote on peggy kittel's retention. some of this is up to us too.
I wonder, did she also apologize for the inconvenience of bringing him into her courtroom too?
jro4ku 6 months, 1 week ago
I might have thought the sentence was light too, if I hadn't been in the court room when he plead guilty. I was present to observe an unrelated case. I cried for this kid I'd never seen before. I thought his life was completley over before it started If you'd seen him, you may not be so quick to judge. A prison sentence would have been tantamount to the death penalty.
cheeseburger 6 months ago
If he's a big enough boy to carry a gun, rob people, and fight them, he's big enough to accept a penalty commensurate with the crime.
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