May 25, 2006

TRY SHORTENING HER EMPLOYMENT:

Judge: Man Is Too Short for Prison (AP, 5/25/06)

Sidney, Neb. [...] A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.

His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers. [...]

"I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life," the judge told Thompson. "I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced."

Hasn't exactly been okay out in society so far, has he?

Posted by Matt Murphy at May 25, 2006 10:11 PM
Comments

She could have ordered him stretched 6 inches before starting his time. Why do the accommodations always go in the direction of leniency?

Posted by: pj at May 25, 2006 10:44 PM

How tall is Madame Justice in this case?

Posted by: John at May 26, 2006 12:11 AM

This guy will be back. Kiddie-diddlers just keep doing it again and again.

I prosecuted these cases in the 70's and defended a few thereafter. Asking them to stop would be like asking a normal person to give up his or her matital relations. The problem is always that the judges feel sorry for them.

The solution in our state was mandatory minimum sentencing. IDSI (Juv) gets 5 years, period. If the judges don't do their job, it gets taken away from them.

Posted by: Lou Gots at May 26, 2006 5:25 AM

She makes a good case for including judges in the anti-gambling bill oj supports.

Posted by: pj at May 26, 2006 7:45 AM

Save his future victims and just execute him.

Posted by: erp at May 26, 2006 9:28 AM

Too rich. I must have overlooked the small man exception in the penal code. Actually, under her logic the judge should be giving BIG men a pass, thereby protecting the population of both small and medium size prisoners.

Posted by: curt at May 26, 2006 9:56 AM

Why hasn't anyone opened an investigation into bribery? Seeing how far the judge is reaching, that seems the explanation.

Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at May 26, 2006 10:55 AM

One of those situations where frontier justice is an acceptable response.

Posted by: Mike Morley at May 26, 2006 11:07 AM
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