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August 30, 2011, 05:52 AM | #1 | |
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6 Years for 7 Cent Robbery
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Somedays it just doesn't pay to be a teen-age thug.
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August 30, 2011, 05:55 AM | #2 |
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As the old TV show used to say, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time".
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I wish the best for this young man, but even after being caught red handed he still denies he did it. I bet the 73 year old man did not think "Hey, that looks like a b-b gun."
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August 30, 2011, 07:32 AM | #4 |
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By reasoning this way, an old man at risk of getting mugged and beaten should always carry a few thousand dollars to make the sentence worth????
It isn't the value of the stolen goods, it's the way they were stolen, i.e. hurting a person. He made himself a felon for beating a person, regardless of the amount stolen. Just My Humble Opinion.... K. |
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August 30, 2011, 07:45 AM | #6 |
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The defense lawyer's attitude is inexcusable, but then again she is a lawyer... probably does those offensive TV ads, too.
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August 30, 2011, 08:43 AM | #7 |
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The defense attorney needs to go back to college and take a course in inductive logic. The judge didn't make the punk a felon -- the punk made himself a felon by committing a felony. He assaulted a 73-year old person. The punk didn't know the elder citizen only had seven cents.
And in many states using a BB gun in a felony counts the same as using a .357 Magnum. (Dunno if this is one of those states.) There are some attorneys who should not be allowed to practice law. I think we just found one. |
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No he was made a felon because he's an animal,it doesn't matter if it was 7 cents or $7000.At that age we were cutting 73 year-old's lawns,and doing anything they needed done.But back then we didn't have to be P.C.,you did what you were taught to do.
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And by the way, given the strength of the case against him a competent attorney would have had him admit guilt and cop a plea as a juvenile. But no..... |
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August 30, 2011, 11:05 AM | #10 |
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We had a guy several years ago who held up a liquor store and got $10.00 (right after the deposit). The judge gave him 10 years. At a dollar per year, our guy had a higher cost benefit ratio than the poor thug who got a penny per year.
It just goes to show that crime doesn't pay. Maybe if the kid has been enrolled in school and selling pencils on the corner, he'd not be in jail today. |
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This was a classic example of the rule that "Stupid games have stupid prizes." Knocking down and beating up a 73-year old man was definitely a stupid game. Had the victim had a fatal heart attack, they could have been facing a murder charge.
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August 30, 2011, 04:41 PM | #12 |
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So, about those guns. What were they?
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August 30, 2011, 05:33 PM | #13 |
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"Stupid games have stupid prizes."
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August 30, 2011, 06:28 PM | #14 |
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He is a felon and well deserves to be. Once there was some respect for age, but no more.
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So, is there a dollar amount that changes things? Hope this cretin dies in jail
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August 30, 2011, 06:38 PM | #16 |
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Mr Knauss needs to have all his pencils broken his computer beat down with sledge hammer and resign as a reporter.
These two young punks assaulted a human being. An older defenseless person at that and could have caused serious bodily harm. The reporter kind of glossed over that and made the 7 cents the feature piece of the article. I wonder if Mr. Knauss had been beaten and robbed by these two young punks if he would have the same viewpoint.
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Those kids are just lucky that wasn't my grandfather. There are also extenuating penalties for crimes against the elderly. I don't think this falls under the old saying "boys will be boys". Too bad they don't string em up in the court house lawn anymore.
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They'll be out by 18 or nearly so. Then we'll get to send 'em back for some really serious time when they try it again.
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A criminal is still a criminal. Like Honda motorcycles says; "Stupid hurts".
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August 31, 2011, 01:36 AM | #20 |
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I think it should have been seven years - that makes more cents to me.
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I also think there should have been a minimum sentence for using a gun in the crime.
Fake gun, real gun, flare gun, BB gun, whatever-gun, I think if a firearm is used in a crime there should be minimum non-plea, non-parolable, sentence leveled on the offender, not to be served concurrently - but in addition to the sentencing for the crime that the gun was used to commit. |
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I don't think Laurin Haddad understands that it isn't the amount of the robbery that resulted in the robbery being a felony. It is sort of like people who try to excuse themselves from some idiotic action by noting how they made a "simple mistake." It isn't the complexity of the mistake that is at issue, but the rammifications/consequences of it. Chalk it up to stupidity for not picking a more lucrative target. Chalk it up to stupidity for not being able get the charges reduced. Quote:
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Well now there is a judge who knows the value of making an example out of a felon. OK $.07 is no money but beating a 70+ man because he looks like he is an easy target, is a crime that deserves what he got.
Oh yea the BB gun lucky that a LEO did not see the gun and attack he would be dead. This punk got what he deserves and gets no sympathy from me what happens to them in prison is just what they deserve. Mace |
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