The victim of the BB gun armed robbery contacted the local news rag after he read about the case, and feels that the "hardened criminal" (/s) shouldn't go to jail.
But what does he know - he's just a silly peasant.
America's Law/Prison Complex: It's About Rehabilitation, Unless It's About Showing Crimnels And Other Peasants Who's Boss.
But not Lois Lerner, or Eric Holder, or Charlie Rangel, or IRS agents, or BLM agents, or Jon Corzine, or many, many others of our Royal .Gov Types.
This ex-criminal has been a productive citizen. The state of Missouri bungled this. Too late to jail him now. Give him 5 years probation
Plus how is robbery with a BB gun an armed robbery?
No doubt the Governor of Missouri gets to feel very good about himself when he issues a pardon.
Dang! The Gear Queers missed a chance to flash-bang the little girl to death.
No justice in this.
Seriously the government missed its chance.
They would have been wise to sweep this mistake under the rug. If the guy was truly a menace and dangerous the victim would have been alerting the authorities 15 years ago.
Their utter incompetence is on such display now. Not smart.
But I have little confidence that the right thing will be done.
Sounds to me they accidentally sentenced him to home confinement. Sentence served.
The governor is able to issue a pardon, isn’t he?
But, in the USSA, there is no political upside to issuing pardons. So they are rare now.
The main reason I hated Romney’s guts was that he boasted of never issuing one of those wimpy pardons while governor. Tough guy. Meanwhile, Gerald Amirault was rotting away innocent, and everybody knew it. If you’re not familiar with that case, don’t Google it. You’ll get sick.
I’m ready to ban SWAT teams. This is effing ridiculous.
Well the guy will do the time now as he should. Whether it’s a mistake by some prison official or some stupid EO that allows illegal aliens to run free for a period ... the fact they built decent lives doesn’t erase what they did. whether the sentence itself was fair and just is a separate matter. But if a mistake is made and a prisoner or illegal alien is allowed to remain free for a period of time that doesn’t count as time served.
SWAT needs excuses to terrorize citizens. Put them in jail until they grow up.
With the IRS, the BLM, and now this, governmental overkill has clearly become standard operating procedure.
I am really growing tired of SWAT team outfitted in tactical gear and helmets. I know government likes to spend money but this is totally unnecessary.
It is quite a ‘shock’ that he hasn’t received a pResidential pardon.
Now I get it - this is what SWAT teams are for.
The law is the law. Let him serve his time. No freebies.
Double the sentence to 26 years.
You avoid the time, you do double time.
Well, it is MO, and they still boast of HST.
Seem weird that he got 13 years and after 13 years they decided to release him. Seems like he was a model prisoner what with never getting into trouble. Shouldn’t they had tried to release him earlier?