- Police: Men Forced Way Into Disabled Woman'S Home To Sell Drugs
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4 Sentenced In $400 Theft Of Disabled Woman'S Rent From the article:
Four men who authorities believe took advantage of a disabled woman by using her apartment were sentenced to probation in Lucas County Common Pleas Court Tuesday after they acknowledged stealing her rent money.Misdemeanor theft? What about drug trafficking, kidnapping and burglary?
Dominique Davis, 19, Sean Johnson, 20, Dashawn L. Belcher, 22, and Jerome M. Hornbeak, 20, each pleaded no contest to a charge of misdemeanor theft.
Under the negotiated plea, Judge Myron Duhart dismissed one count each of aggravated burglary and kidnapping against each defendant.Remind me about this if I ever get a speeding ticket - I can probably plea bargain it down to spitting on the sidewalk or something. These four were ordered to pay $100 each in restitution (man, that's a lot of pot they'll have to sell!) and stay away from the victim. But it gets better.
In addition to restitution, the men were each ordered to obtain their high school equivalency diplomas and obtain gainful employment.Oh well, since the Honorable Judge Myron Duhart has so ordered, I'm sure that these four will run right out and in a year or two have obtained their GED and be working at a legitimate job somewhere. Of course, Judge Duhart failed to tell them not to break any more laws, so I'm not so sure this plan will work as His Honor envisioned.
The four men were scheduled to be released from custody Tuesday [January 25, 2011].
This is bullshit. These four little scum bags broke into a retarded woman's apartment, a woman who can't defend herself and who is likely incapable of articulating just what happened to her, and who gets through life with the aid of a social worker who is supposed to help protect her. They terrorized her, they trafficked in drugs out of her home and her neighbors are so fucked up that not one saw anything unusual going on. Putting these four in prison is a good beginning. What's even worse yet is that the police see all this happen, know what's going on here, do their job right and the prosecutor bitches the case.
4 comments:
You know, MJ, nothing surprises me any more. They just want to shuffle the exorbitant case load out the door as quickly as possible.
As for the scum -
It's all a joke to them...and there's nothing to stop them from doing it again to her, or any other handicapped individual.
I just can't understand how a couple of major felonies can result in probation.
I don't understand it either. This is a major crime and the prosecutor has just ignored it. What really got to me was the neighbors reaction - the poor woman's apartment is invaded and turned into a drug house, and they see nothing wrong? Man, that's cold.
I wish I could say this was unusual. During my career I have investigated more serious cases than I can remember. For every ten violent crimes I have investigated, I may have ended up testifying in one or two of the group. Plea bargains are sometimes necessary but most are not.
I had lunch with my attorney the other day. In addition to a professional relationship he and I are good friends in spite of our differences of opinion on certain things. Anyway, he was surprised by this as well and indicated that the charges might have been hard to prove given the homeowner's cognitive disability. For my part, the case makes me angry. I advocate taking the little bastards out back and shooting them.
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