Why on earth would this guy get this sentence?
http://news.yahoo.com/insight-florida-man-sees-cruel-face-u-justice-050157061.html
There’s your answer.
If I kill 10 people, but don’t get caught until the tenth, should I only be sentenced as harshly as someone who only killed one person because it was technically my first offence?
Not that I agree with the current justice system, it’s just that this is not a legitimate criticism.
It also irks me how they needlessly point out he’s black and grew up in a black neighbourhood to further elicit ‘moral outrage’ in their readers.
Not bad TT.
I’ll bite, he got that sentence because he’s a black man. Just calling it like I see it.
I thought the article was pretty funny: “All I did was commit a bunch of crimes, how did I get sentenced to a bunch of time in jail?”
[quote]BrianHanson wrote:
Why on earth would this guy get this sentence?
http://news.yahoo.com/insight-florida-man-sees-cruel-face-u-justice-050157061.html
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I don’t know. Committing a string of armed robberies might have something to do with it. You can’t commit an armed robbery without hurting someone, despite what the article says.
Yet, if he were a Kennedy or a Bush, the prosecutor wouldn’t have even dreamed of these trumped up charges. Happened because he’s black.
He got that sentence because he could not afford a good lawyer. Say what you like you get justice in America if you can afford it .
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
I thought the article was pretty funny: “All I did was commit a bunch of crimes, how did I get sentenced to a bunch of time in jail?”[/quote]
The ability to pile one charge upon the next is very, very troubling especially if combined with a system where most cases are plea bargained.
If you ever get into this systems crosshairs you will either have to agree to do some time or you will have to defend yourself against 15 charges for essentially the same alleged crime which will ruin you.
Whether in this case someone actually deserved what he got is not entirely besides the point, but incredibly short sighted.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:He got that sentence because he could not afford a good lawyer. Say what you like you get justice in America if you can afford it .[/quote]No, in America if you have enough money you can ESCAPE justice. Sometimes.
Poor kid. He didn’t stand a chance against his own stupidity.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
I thought the article was pretty funny: “All I did was commit a bunch of crimes, how did I get sentenced to a bunch of time in jail?”[/quote]
The ability to pile one charge upon the next is very, very troubling especially if combined with a system where most cases are plea bargained.
If you ever get into this systems crosshairs you will either have to agree to do some time or you will have to defend yourself against 15 charges for essentially the same alleged crime which will ruin you.
Whether in this case someone actually deserved what he got is not entirely besides the point, but incredibly short sighted.[/quote]
If you rob a train and hold a gun on and take money from each passenger, you committed armed robbery for each person you robbed. Why exactly should crimes in the commission of other crimes be forgiven?
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
I thought the article was pretty funny: “All I did was commit a bunch of crimes, how did I get sentenced to a bunch of time in jail?”[/quote]
The ability to pile one charge upon the next is very, very troubling especially if combined with a system where most cases are plea bargained.
If you ever get into this systems crosshairs you will either have to agree to do some time or you will have to defend yourself against 15 charges for essentially the same alleged crime which will ruin you.
Whether in this case someone actually deserved what he got is not entirely besides the point, but incredibly short sighted.[/quote]
The article said he committed a “string” of armed robberies. They should all count as a separate charge. This man knew that armed robbery is illegal and comes with jail time, he should have expected to do time for every crime he committed. Just because he managed to get away with a bunch of them before his first arrest doesn’t change anything.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
I thought the article was pretty funny: “All I did was commit a bunch of crimes, how did I get sentenced to a bunch of time in jail?”[/quote]
The ability to pile one charge upon the next is very, very troubling especially if combined with a system where most cases are plea bargained.
If you ever get into this systems crosshairs you will either have to agree to do some time or you will have to defend yourself against 15 charges for essentially the same alleged crime which will ruin you.
Whether in this case someone actually deserved what he got is not entirely besides the point, but incredibly short sighted.[/quote]
You can commit several crimes in the course of one criminal endeavor.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:<<< The article said he committed a “string” of armed robberies. They should all count as a separate charge. This man knew that armed robbery is illegal and comes with jail time, he should have expected to do time for every crime he committed. Just because he managed to get away with a bunch of them before his first arrest doesn’t change anything.
[/quote]Also, the fact that some fat cats get away with their crimes should not be motivation to be lenient on others. It should be motivation to tighten up the prosecutions of the fat cats.
Dude got what he deserved IMHO…of course such a setence is ‘out of step’ with most others I’ve seen of a similar nature…but hey…is anyone going to lose much sleep over a guy who endangered the live’s of dozens of people because of his selfish, wreckless, reprobated ways? Nope…didn’t think so!!
If you really want an example of harsh justice, check this out:
http://www.malawivoice.com/2012/06/26/british-man-facing-death-penalty-in-abu-dhabi-after-selling-undercover-policeman-cannabis-27613/
"In one recent, highly controversial Florida sentencing, Marissa Alexander, an African-American woman in Jacksonville with no previous criminal record, was sentenced to 20 years for firing a pistol twice into the air while trying to ward off an attack by her abusive husband. Denied the protection of Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law, the 31-year-old mother of three was convicted of aggravated assault, a felony, and given the mandatory sentence for anyone who fires a gun in commission of the felony.
Davis’s sentencing has not generated the same degree of public interest."
Well, no shit! I’m not familiar with the first case, but if that summary is true I could understand what she was doing. Sounds like a bullshit sentence for her, unless of course it was an illegal weapon. Who is going to give a shit about a bona fide, serial armed-robber like Davis?
“I ain’t going to never accept what happened,” he added. “They know what they did isn’t right.”
Pretty sure what HE did wasn’t right, skin color notwithstanding. He can go fuck himself.
He stole property by and through the threat of a firearm seven times over. He isn’t an “offender”, he is a criminal, and under the law, the judge was entitled to sentence him the way he did.
Don’t like it? Call your Congressman.
And the article (stupidly) goes on to speculate: “It is not clear why prosecutors decided to throw the full weight of the law at Davis…”
Sure it is. They got his accomplices to plea out and testify against him, and they set a nice example of zero tolerance for the next bozo who thinks knocking off fast food shops with a loaded weapon would be a fun night out - seven times over.
If he was in Canada, he would be serving his time concurrently.