Sftball4Life
02-16-2007, 11:50 AM
OK - I didn't attend either of these trials - so I didn't hear any of the testimony - but I just don't follow the logic, or lack thereof...
Two Texarkana trials
(1) In January, a jury convicted a man of 1st degree murder after he shot and killed his ex-wife's new boyfriend, while the boyfriend was driving away from her residence with a baby in a carseat strapped into the back seat. After being shot, he crashed the car into the garage of a neighbor's house. Fortunately, the baby was okay.
sentence: 7 years
(2) In February, a man pleads guilty to "inciting a riot" when he encouraged a large group of people to ignore police telling them to quit popping firecrackers because of dry conditions. He apparently told them to shoot bottle rockets at the police. A judge (who had full disclosure of the fact that the man had already been in several scrapes with the law) passes sentence on the guilty plea.
sentence: 5 years for the riot + an additional 10 years for probation violation by getting in trouble again
WOW
Two Texarkana trials
(1) In January, a jury convicted a man of 1st degree murder after he shot and killed his ex-wife's new boyfriend, while the boyfriend was driving away from her residence with a baby in a carseat strapped into the back seat. After being shot, he crashed the car into the garage of a neighbor's house. Fortunately, the baby was okay.
sentence: 7 years
(2) In February, a man pleads guilty to "inciting a riot" when he encouraged a large group of people to ignore police telling them to quit popping firecrackers because of dry conditions. He apparently told them to shoot bottle rockets at the police. A judge (who had full disclosure of the fact that the man had already been in several scrapes with the law) passes sentence on the guilty plea.
sentence: 5 years for the riot + an additional 10 years for probation violation by getting in trouble again
WOW