By the looks of the long sentence, I'd say she declined the judges advances.
Posted on 06/15/2010 3:17:29 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
ELKO, Nev. — A Twin Falls woman convicted of forcing a 13-year-old boy to touch her breasts was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Michelle Lyn Taylor, 34, was convicted of lewdness with a minor under 14 in November after a week-long trial in Elko County, Nev., District Judge Mike Memeo’s courtroom.
With the conviction, Taylor faced a mandatory life sentence, and Memeo set parole eligibility after 10 years, the minimum sentence. If released on parole she must register as a sex offender and will be under lifetime supervision.
The district attorney’s office did not offer a plea agreement in the case, said public defender Alina Kilpatrick, who argued the sentence is unconstitutional and doesn’t fit the crime.
Gotta love these sentences. Mandatory life sentence, but we'll probably parole you, and then you'll have to do some paperwork.
There are some things even 13-year old boys won’t do...
She probably traded him a pocket knife with two blades,
a screw driver/can opener, and a corkscrew.
As the punch line goes...” Yes, now I’m young and beautiful
but some day I’ll be old and wrinkled and you’d be surprised
what a boy scout will do for a pocket knife with two
blades, a screwdriver, and a corkscrew!!”
Based on the picture, harpooning would be more appropriate. Of course, the Sea Shepard guys would protest her conviction.
the kid is gonna be scarred for life..
We do not agree. 13 year old boys know the difference between flabby and nice. It is in our DNA. The boy was abused.
I’m guessing she has at least two prior felony convictions.
Well hey, the kid has some standards at least, if he had to be forced.
I understand Nevada has some of the highest crime rates in the country, but this is outrageous.
“She is getting a greater penalty for having a boy touch her breast than if she killed him”
something’s messed up in the state penal code?
Well, I'm not sure how many cases you've prosecuted, but I've prosecuted a fair share. You can't make anyone plead down to anything. You charge them with the most serious crime you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt, and perhaps you hope that the accused will plead down.
Since you're happy to assume facts not in evidence, I'll do the same. She probably took it to the box thinking that she'd beat the rap, considering the disproportionate sentence. Her counsel may not have realized that a discussion about the mandatory sentence wouldn't have been allowed at trial.
Frequently, prosecutions are games of chicken and whomever blinks first loses. Sometimes, you don't blink, but you still lose. I've seen it happen PLENTY of times.
Guilty.
Maybe she tried to bribe the judge with sex?
I'm not familiar with NV law, but I'd guess they probably have life with possibility of parole, and life without possibility. This was the former, not the later.
Unless the judge was Shamu, or cro-magnon man, that's not going to help.
By the looks of the long sentence, I'd say she declined the judges advances.
Geez, there’s rapists and murders who don’t even get life.
Well you did not even have to click through, just read the article to the last paragraph to get to:
“The district attorney’s office did not offer a plea agreement in the case, ...”
Maybe the PD is lying about this, but I doubt it.
All three chins are guilty.
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