20 years into serving a life sentence for stealing $14, a black man was released from a California prison last month following a recommendation from the state’s department of corrections and rehabilitation.
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I don't know what his race has to do with anything, but leave it to the Left leaning Daily Mail to point that out for us.
My ex brother-in-law was a professional convict, one of those guys doing a life sentence on the installment plan, and even he had sense enough to straighten his act up when the people of California voted that law in.
It always made sense to me, providing that it is explained up front and everyone knows where they stand. You were convicted of two previous crimes, did your time and were released. Next time you are caught, and don't think that you won't be, we caught you twice before, there will be no being released. Surely it saves a lot of work rounding him up time after time for the latest in a never ending string of offences.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sob story. He wasn't jailed for stealing 14 dollars. He was jailed for being a habitual offender. Wonder what crimes he would have committed if he hadn't been in the pen.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
He could have run for Congress, they need people with his experience.
DeleteI'm pretty sure that stealing $14 isn't a felony in any state of the US ... unless you steal it with a gun in your hand. Might be considered an important detail.
ReplyDeleteI my be wrong but as I recall, the third offence doesn't have to be a felony. If he was convicted of anything after two prior felonies, he'd be hit with a third strike.
DeleteAlso bear in mind the part they never talk about - for each strike he was convicted off, there are at least 10 to 20 crimes he committed where he was never caught, or caught but never convicted. Habitual means habitual. He was probably stealing daily to support a drug habit. He attempted to break into people's houses. What would happen if someone confronted him? Would he get violent? Do we really want to find out? Sorry, not sorry. It ain't the $14, it's the known fact that he was a habitual criminal. Whatever life issues he had (and he certainly had them), plenty of other people go thru the same thing and don't end up like that.
ReplyDeleteI'd have felt like shit for sending someone to prison that long over $14.
ReplyDeleteWhat if it was a politician, any politician? They literally steal more than that from us every year.
DeleteAnd some people still vote!
I was a wise ass punk, seventeen years old, headed to Lockport, Buffalo to partake in a rumble. Long story short got stopped by the BCI. Something about threating a couple jackasses in Syracuse with a switch blade. T'was in Onondaga County Pen I decided the USMC may straighten my young ass out. Sure in later years I spent a few nights in jail for fighting and drunk driving but it only took once in the big house.
ReplyDeleteNow that he's out, will he graduate from felony theft to felony murder?
ReplyDeleteHe stole once before, they got him for two felonies with one crime, "crime was prosecuted as a burglary and robbery – adding the final two felony strikes on his record". He walked into an open garage a took $14 worth of stuff...
ReplyDeleteSome DA making numbers.....
Was it his stuff?
DeleteGuess not.
Backwoods Okie