Ga. suspect in Ala. deputy death had long record

The Columbus Ledger Enquirer ^ | 9/28/09 | unknown

[Bulldawg Fan]

Ga. suspect in Ala. deputy death had long record

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- A Georgia man had been booked into a jail 16 times in the past 11 years and was on parole from a 2007 felony drug conviction when charged with capital murder in the death of an Alabama deputy last week, the Ledger-Enquirer reported.

The Columbus newspaper reported Sunday that Gregory Lance Henderson, 31, had been ordered to serve three years in prison in 2007 but was out on parole after about 15 months when arrested in the death Thursday of Lee County Deputy James Anderson, 39.

The Columbus man was accused of accelerating a vehicle and striking the deputy, causing fatal injuries, after a traffic stop at Smiths Station in rural Lee County. He was being held Monday at the jail in Russell County, Ala., and did not have a lawyer.

[Bulldawg Fan]

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole can over ride a sentence of "time to serve." That needs to change. If Henderson had served his three years as the Judge ordered, Deputy Anderson would be alive today. Disgusting.

[Jeff Head]

Where do they find these demented judges and officials. 16 times in 11 years. They need a 3-strikes you're out law...or maybe a 10-strikes anyhow.

This officer died at the hands of this animal...but the blood is all over the people who let him out.

We need a sea change in this country...and I believe there is hope of it occurring. But we are going to have to work hard, and rise up together and start cleaning house...from the local levels on up.

AWAKEN, O AMERICA, YOUR LIBERTY IS CALLING

[NonValueAdded]

How is the BoPP accountable to We the People? elected, appointed, if appointed, by whom? Who are these people and what are their “qualifications?” Which legislators voted for the statute that allowed the BoPP to override the sentence given by the judge? Let them feel the heat. They work for US - OK, the good people of Georgia, but the model works in any of these United States - and it is time to exert a little managerial control, people!

[jwparkerjr]

Absolutely EVERY person who is in a position to affect the lives of law-abiding citizens needs to be answerable to the people. Period. No position should be shielded from the will of the people. There are far too many positions, at every level of government, that are immune to action by those whom they can affect. There might have been a time when the person who appointed that underling was answerable to the people, but no longer. We have let a system be put in place piece by piece, over generations, where an official can wreak havoc with a citizen and there's absolutely no redress. Well, no redress that does not involve violence and a jail sentence.

It's time we put the bite back in the phrase “we the people.” Time those who have established themselves as a favored ruling class hear it as “WE THE PEOPLE, and don't you forget it!”