Odilon Camarillo "Tito" Lopez shown wearing earphones in court, an indication he speaks no english.
Posted on 08/26/2006 2:20:58 PM PDT by CAWats
The violence ended in a Vista motel room after Lopez snapped two vertebrae in her neck, leaving the woman a quadriplegic. After initially refusing to get help for her, Lopez summoned the motel's clerk, who called an ambulance.
Pressman said he took note of the callous and brutal nature of the attacks in imposing the lengthy prison sentence. Defense attorney Mary Ellen Attridge, who said her client was high on methamphetamine at the time of the crime, asked Pressman to impose one life sentence.
“There is only one life to give to the penal system,” Attridge said.
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"There is only one life to give to the penal system"...
But first, a little chi chi.
Life imprisonment without pain is too good for this vermin.
All drugs shold be legal, some say. They say the "war on drugs" is a waste of money. So do those who argue that this animal should not have such a harsh sentence.
I argue that this animal should not be allowed to live out a life sentence, and that anyone who sells these drugs should face a death penalty as well.
He got two life sentences. Good.
Queme en Infierno, Tito.
He was sentenced to two as an assurance that he will never be released. I detest illegals as a general rule, but this woman did not deserve this.
Do You think marijuana should be illegal?
One life sentence is enough to indict the truly guilty, two life sentences is enough to indict the judicial system.
Nobody deserves to be a victim of illegal drugs, and all those who use drugs and commit crimes as a result, as well as those who deal these drugs should face the same harsh penalty. The main reason the "war on drugs" isn't effective is because the penal system doesn't reward that behavior appropriately.
You have freedom of choice in this country, but the moment you choose to indulge in illegal drugs, either taking or selling/manufacturing them, is the moment you are no longer a victim, but an accomplice as well. We have to work harder to prevent our children from becoming a victim and accomplice of the illegal drug trade. We need to enforce harsh penalties for all drug related crimes, not use drugs use as an excuse for a reduced sentence.
Absolutely. It destroys minds and lives like any other drug. Pot users do not agree of course. But they don't see how they are affected by it.
You need to get out more. I don't use it. I was just curious.
He should have a very short life sentence. Life in prision until 23 September. Then he can be released in a box or they can keep him in the yard if there is no one to pick him up.
You CAN however, have a glass of wine with a meal, enjoy a cold beer, or have a drink after dinner without becoming stoned, and loosing abilities of perception.
Illegals, clogging up our courts and prisons.
Doen't that concern you?
You state some odd statistics. I would like to know where you get that 20% of high school students are addicted to pot? Sounds like BS to me.
What on earth is your point? I think you need to get out more. Your brain seems fried. This has what to do with the Meth Head who paralyzed his girlfriend?
Read the whole thread. I know.
Meth would never have existed if not for the War on Drugs. Same with crack. In addition, the War on Drugs has zero positive accomplishment it can prove for all the billions spent. Stuff like this belongs on the consciences of the drug warriors... if they had any.
I do know occasional pot users. They are the exception to the rule however. Most pot users smoke pot several times a day. And it shows. My 'view" of the world isn't sad at all, I'm quite well aware of the drug addictions that plague it. I'm sure you are honest when you say those you know can't stop at one or two drinks when they are around alcohol. That's what is known as an alcoholic.
Sometimes people purposely set out to get drunk. There's nothing wrong with having a good time once in a while as long as you plan it, and have friends around to drag you home, prevent you from driving and hurting somebody, and stick your head in the ceramic bowl. Alcohol can be abused, but it can also be used properly, something you probably have never seen.
Read #6
Two beers is legally intoxicated in most states. The Feds with hold highway money to force the issue. Do some research.
They why are multiple life sentences given out? Because they want liberal judges from letting criminals out early. Get it?
Spoken like someone with no knowledge of the subject. I guess your prejudices qualify you, huh? I have dozens of successful friends who would disagree with you. Combined, their incomes could support a small country.
Why do you think our original documents guarantee personal freedoms? Where do you find a part of the Constitution whick needs a DEA, or a Dept of Energy, for that fact...
Click it or ticket!
Oh come on. I KNOW You are smarter than that.
If pot and other popular drugs were legal, the cost would probably be even higher, and that would drive wanna be chemists to create stuff like Meth just the same. I can't believe you made so lame a comment. I usually see much better from you.
What a crock of Sh$t.
Again, I have seen plenty (many of them my friends) who had it all and tossed it away because of their drug problems.
Last year my friend shot his wife, her brother, and himself, because of drugs.
Don;t even try tell me I don't know anything on the subject, I know MORE than you do.
It's a perfectly valid comment. Your ideological dedication to the War on Drugs has blinded you to the mechanics of market economics. Prices go down (dramatically) when something is made legal, because there is a risk premium in an illegal market, which can often run to many times the actual price of producing the product. The reason why meth exists is because the ingredients are easily obtained relative to recreational drugs made illegal. The reason crack exists is that it is a way to increase the value of a given amount of cocaine more cheaply than simply buying more.
Black markets only provide lower prices where the alternative is legal and heavily taxed. In the case of illegal drugs, the alternative is not legal and not taxed at all.
You know, that is probably truer than you think.
The justice system has become the biggest industry in the country. The reason the "war on drugs" isn't working is because it has become part of this industry.
We need to chop out all this plea bargaining crap, built more prisons and enforce the law and penalties for breaking it as it was intended to be.
What I like about the War on Drugs is how well it works.
It appears from your posts, that you do not! Marijuana is not causing any deaths, FRiend. Marijuana prohibition does!
A while back I heard forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz say that one reason
crime had gone down over the years was that we are putting more people in prison.
(I may be off on these numbers a bit...)
He said that there were something like 5 million sociopaths in the USA and
we'd locked up about 3 million of them.
(implying we still had 2 million to go)
As I said, I expected better from you. I can't believe you never thought about what happens when the government gets involved with ANYTHING.
Involved with anthing- ESPECIALY a controled substance.
Take Booze for example.
Thank G-d that he didn't manage to escape to Mexico. With a life sentence on the table it's doubtfull that we would have been able to get him back for trial.
I agre with some of this as some of them are harmless .... meth on the other hand is the devil's nose candy.
Meth-town : you go in ... you don't have to come back out.
If you look at the stats, You will see it's killing a huge number of our youth in every state. It's a type of drug that rots their minds and bodies. It's made of caustic chemicals, draino, aand other poisons nobody in their right mind would ingest.
Those that argue "if drugs were legalized" obviously don't realize drugs like this could never be legalized or regulated. DO they really think Meth can be FDA appoved? Who would I sue for the bad efects this drug causes? the brain rot, failed kidneys, rotted livers?
Yea, lets give back yard pharmacists "legal" rights to make drugs to poison our youth.
In any population of a sufficient size, a sizeable majority will want recreational intoxication. A certain number of those in our population are satisfied with alcohol; many aren't (not least because alcohol makes you feel sick, makes you highly prone to physical injury, and is perfectly capable of killing you). To deny this is to deny human nature. People get intoxicated to escape psychological pain, and there is no shortage of such pain to go around. Thus until you lead humanity into a unified enlightened Nirvana, there will be drug consumption whether you like it or not.
You state:
Tell me, what is wrong with the legal drugs available now? I can get the purest opiates LEGALY. All you need is a doc's prescription.
Good luck finding a doctor to prescribe them, even if you have a true medical need for them. (There's more than one FReeper here who can relate his own personal nightmare story on this count.) A doctor's mistake can earn him 20 years in prison for drug trafficking. And if the first doctor says no? Then if you go to another doctor you could be charged with "doctor shopping", another way to go to jail for years.
I see no rational reason to keep things like pot and cocaine illegal. Too many people use them and will continue to use them no matter what the law says. Pot in particular can be grown on any patch of dirt; how are you really going to stop it from being available? The government can't even keep its own parks from being used as plantations for that.
We learned this lesson once, during Prohibition, and it needs to be learned again: Prohibition helps no one but criminals and corrupt government officials.
It's too bad you have let your passions overwhelm your knowledge of basic economics. Illegal activities come with higher prices because of the risk premium. The only times when an illegal activity is cheaper than a legal one is where the activity is already legal but taxed at a rate that exceeds the risk premium. The total risk premium on, say, marijuana, from production to "retail" is (estimating conservatively) about 1000%. Thus taxation would have to exceed 1000% to bring the price of the product, were it legal, to current price levels.
" her client was high on methamphetamine at the time of the crime"
OK, good. Let's see...that's 2 life sentences for the vicious act, and 100 years for committing it under the influence of drugs! Bailiff! Take the prisoner away...
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