Posted on 03/27/2008 11:44:42 AM PDT by george76
Barton Gets 15 Years Probation, Community Service.
A woman who admitted to starting the Hayman Fire will not do any time in Colorado for sparking the largest wildfire in the state's history...
"I feel good. It's done," Terry Barton said, looking relaxed at the hearing.
Barton is currently serving a six-year sentence in a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas and will be released in June. The state wanted her to also serve time in state prison, but Barton's original state sentence of 12 years in prison was overturned by the Colorado Appeals Court.
"Your honor, I'm not asking for forgiveness, I'm just asking for people to move on with their lives," Barton said in court.
District Judge Thomas Kennedy resentenced her on state charges and ruled she did not have to serve any prison time in Colorado.
He also ordered her to pay $30 million in restitution and serve 1,500 hours of community service -- or 100 hours each year she's on probation. The community service will have to be served in the four counties impacted by the fire -- Douglas, Jefferson, Teller and Park counties.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
And let us not forget the firefighters from Oregon that were killed enroute to the fire. I know she’s not directly responsible for that accident, but they would probably be alive today.
” Or the fine is a joke.”
Nah, if she works hard for 40 hours a week, doesn’t take too many coffee breaks, doesn’t spend foolisly for fancy 3 martini lunches for about $145 an hour, she can pay it off in about 100 years. If they bump her wages up to $290 an hour she can work it off in a measly 50 years if they don’t withhold anything from her pay packet.
No sweat.
Become Eliot Spitzer’s bimbo?
“He also ordered her to pay $30 million in restitution”
well, I know _I_ feel better now.
Sell her organs...
Still, I think the six year sentence was just. She didn't mean to start a forest fire; she was incredibly reckless and terminally stupid. And she's ruined her life as well.
I drove through the smoldering area and saw the burned out houses. That woman deserves worse than she got.
She is moving on...
Translation : the big finger to those who lost their homes and do not have the cash to re-build.
"I feel good. It's done," Terry Barton said"I'm just asking for people to move on with their lives," Barton said in court.
A fifth firefighter on his way to battle the Hayman Fire has died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident near Parachute Friday.
Bartholomew Bailey, 20, died Monday evening.
He was among a group of firefighters from Oregon coming to Colorado when their van crashed along Interstate 70.
Four firefighters died that night.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1529504/detail.html
Terry Barton destroyed people’s jobs and businesses that put food on the family table, paid the utilities, taxes...
Floods later raveged the hill side and roads...which then were closed so that hunters, fishermen, recreationalist...could not acces the public lands.
But she is moving on.
grrr
Oh, that's ok. We must have compassion for her. After all, that ranch was a symbol of the excessive capitalistic conspicuous consumption that is bordering on affluenza in this nation of economic bullies. America will never be right till the people "bring it all down, man!" (/dripping sarcasm off)
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