And We Call This Justice..............!

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A few stories that made news this week....


Judge rules sex offender is too short for prison
5-foot-1 man gets 10 years probation for sexual assault of a child

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.

"You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child," she said.
But, she said, "That doesn't make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category."

Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his pornography.
He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.

"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."



20 years for marijuana
By Staff Reports
5/27/2006


An attorney calls her 72-year-old client's punishment 'a death sentence.'
A 72-year-old man received what his lawyer called a "death sentence" Friday in Tulsa February of using a building in Skiatook to house 1,000 or more marijuana plants.

John Thomas Watters was sentenced to 20 years in prison by U.S. Chief District Judge Claire Eagan, who said that was the minimum punishment allowable.

Watters was also was found guilty Feb. 24 of three other charges contained in an April 2005 indictment.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon Henson has said Watters was suspected of running a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation with heat lamps and a ventilation system.

The grand jury alleged that Watters conspired with Jerry Kent Harris, 52, from September 2002 through Nov. 14, 2003, to possess the drugs while intending to distribute them.

Henson said Friday that Harris has not been apprehended and is believed to be in Mexico.

Watters' attorney, Beverly Atteberry, said the combination of Watters' age, poor health and the fact that federal prisoners must serve at least 85 percent of their sentences means the
punishment equates to "a death sentence for him. He will not get out of prison."

Eagan ruled that Watters will be under court supervision for 10 years if he survives the prison term.

Watters was not fined, but he'd already agreed to forfeit proceeds from the sale of his property in Sperry and Rogers County as well as 17 guns.



Oh Joy........! Our Legal System is on the right track now.........

These stories bring to mind just how little distance we have placed between ourselves and the dark ages.
The last story on the 72 year old man is not really unique to this area. Bill LaFortune, prosecuted a man, while District Attorney, for growing Medicinal Marijuana (for personal consumption) the outcome of that Trial was a sentence of 99 years.
(the man in that case was suffering from MS)... On a lighter note he received early release.

At this rate; it may be an improvement to bring back the rack , the practice of trials by fire, and of course the hum drum occasional lynch mob..
How can Americans expect themselves to be viewed as Leaders of the World when we still during this day and age have such a backward judicial system..

On a more positive not we did get Tattoos legalized..........