Posted on 05/13/2014 1:46:05 AM PDT by PoloSec
His luck ran out, these next 90 years will be much harder to serve.
I do think the sentence should be dismissed. While do we want people to serve time for their crimes, if they reform themselves, we should take it into account. A justice system that insists on the absolute letter of the law is not administering justice. By definition, justice cannot be absolute - it must take into account the particular facts of the case at hand, including the defendant’s conduct when he remained free in the world.
Meanwhile under Obama and Holder: Not only did Homeland Security spring 68,000 criminals who are in the country illegally rather than process them for deportation in 2013, it freed nearly 40,000 in detention while they waited to hear if they’d been booted, the Center for Immigration Studies reported.
The 36,007 released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody included criminals convicted of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault, and in 16,000 cases, nailed for drunk or drugged driving, the Center reported, citing an ICE tally.
While I agree - he is not that bright if he thought the law would not eventually get around to re-arresting him. If I was him I would have changed country - moved to Canada or South America!
He rehabilitated himself, that fact is intolerable to the ‘justice’ system. So he had to be ‘punished’ for it.
I guess you could also say this is another instance of zero common-sense like you see in the school systems today when it comes to chewing a pop-tart into the shape of a pistol.
99 years for robbery? Is the private prison system providing kickbacks to judges and contributions to campaigns for politicians to appear tough on crime? It isn’t healthy to have a justice system with a commercial motive for keeping convicts locked up for as long as possible and not rehabilitate them.
Someone must be running for political office....
Can’t be targeted as soft on crime....
90 years to soon...
ordered the employees in once case into a back room...
...stalling windows and making good money.
Marin filed his own appear...
...the very region is lived his entire life...
Just more clerical errors. Did the author formerly work as a court reporter?
Ummm, the clerical “error” did not put him back in prison, it got him out. How many of these clerical errors are really just errors?
Kidnapping.
I’m wondering what the man’s skin melanin content had to do with the story.
Seems irrelevant to me. I guess I don’t try to politicize race at every opportunity, though.
A clerical CORRECTION puts him back into prison.
(Who writes this stuff?)
Good grief! Was this written by someone for whom English is a second language? Starting with the contradictory headline, it is one big mess.
So who is the “Javert” who prides himself on capturing this “ValJean”?
Not to mention:
...90 years to soon.
No.
A Clerical Error Puts Man With 98 Year Sentence Back on the Street; Correction Sends Him Back To Prison for 90 years.
How many convicted murderers, pedophiles and rapists walk the streets prowling for new victims while the Just-Us system preys on men who turn from crime and reform themselves?
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