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re: Man who spent 36 years in prison for stealing $50 from a bakery is now set to be freed
Posted on 8/30/19 at 12:24 pm to TechDawg2007
Posted on 8/30/19 at 12:24 pm to TechDawg2007
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Crowder said that since the change in the sentencing laws was not retroactive, there are upwards of 250 prisoners who were similarly sentenced and remain behind bars in part because they simply do not have attorneys pushing for their cases to be re-sentenced.
The same people bitching about his getting out are probably the same ones bitching about the cost of prisons.
250 people cost the state of Alabama $7.5 million ($30,000 avg in US) per year. Hell this one guy cost just about $1,000,000 over the last 36 years, over $50...
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 12:29 pm to TechDawg2007
he was not sentenced for $50.00 he was sentenced because he is a pos who cant stop breaking the law. he was given three chances then they lowered the boom. no fucts given
Posted on 8/30/19 at 12:40 pm to pollosucks
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he was not sentenced for $50.00 he was sentenced because he is a pos who cant stop breaking the law. he was given three chances then they lowered the boom. no fucts given
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In 1979, back when Kennard was 18 years old, he pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree burglary in connection with a break-in at an unoccupied service station, his pleading documents state. For those three charges, all of which were tied to that one incident, he was sentenced to three years’ probation. The next time he was convicted, for the bakery robbery -- which was committed with a pocket knife and involved no injuries -- he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
He went from three years probation to life without parole on a robbery where nobody got hurt. That's ridiculous.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:17 pm to TechDawg2007
Get busy living or get busy dyin
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:21 pm to TechDawg2007
This is what I expect from the clickbait journalism of 2019
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:39 pm to Pintail
quote:They actually bitch more about the cost of public education which in Alabama is about $9000 per student. About $6000 per student for higher education in Alabama.
The same people bitching about his getting out are probably the same ones bitching about the cost of prisons.
250 people cost the state of Alabama $7.5 million ($30,000 avg in US) per year. Hell this one guy cost just about $1,000,000 over the last 36 years, over $50...
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:49 pm to SUB
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$50 in 1984 is about $350 today
I'm not so sure about that. Someone making $50,000 per year in 1980 lived like someone making $350,000 per year today? Pretty sure my dad made that and we didn't even have cable TV.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:50 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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He went from three years probation to life without parole on a robbery where nobody got hurt. That's ridiculous.
I concede that it wasn't shoplifting,but life for $50 bucks & 3 strikes for a single previous break-in is complete bs.
Not shocking that per capita the USA locks up more people than any nation in the world. Not shocking that the United States has more prisoners total than any nation in the world( "Home of the Free"...
) Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:52 pm to sugar71
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Not shocking that per capita the USA locks up more people than any nation in the world. Not shocking that the United States has more prisoners total than any nation in the world( "Home of the Free"... )
Well, they could stop breaking the law...
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:55 pm to upgrayedd
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Well, they could stop breaking the law...
exactly...
I would presume it was explained to him how those counts all added up to three... that if he got arrested again it would be over for him...
guess he didn't care . that is on him.. for 50 bucks to give up 36 years.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 2:59 pm to Lawyered
quote:
exactly...
I would presume it was explained to him how those counts all added up to three... that if he got arrested again it would be over for him...
guess he didn't care . that is on him.. for 50 bucks to give up 36 years.
He's probably one of those people that swears we lock people up for life just because they got caught with half a blunt under the passenger seat.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 3:00 pm to TechDawg2007
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Alabama state law at the time mandated that since it was his fourth offense, the judge had no other option than to sentence him to life in prison.
This post was edited on 8/30/19 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 8/30/19 at 3:04 pm to TechDawg2007
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Crowder said of her trip to meet Kennard, "the guard was chatting with me, and when he saw who I was visiting, he said, ‘That’s one that you could let him out and he wouldn’t cause any more trouble.’"
We shall see.
You know he stole lots of shite before, but never got caught for it. Dude would probably be dead today if not for being sent to prison.
This post was edited on 8/30/19 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 8/30/19 at 3:19 pm to TechDawg2007
Not going to read all of that.
But I think there’s a lot more to the story than a $50 shoplifting.
No one spends three decades in prison for a $50 shoplifting charge.
But I think there’s a lot more to the story than a $50 shoplifting.
No one spends three decades in prison for a $50 shoplifting charge.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 3:30 pm to Paddyshack
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Yeah, I mean, you’re on 3year probation for robbery and then commit armed robbery. Hard to feel sorry for him even if a life sentence is extreme.
Well he was sentenced in 1979 for the first crime. Sentenced in 1983 for the second time...math does not check out with these not so specific details. Sounds like he served his time, but then was sentenced to life based on a fourth felony. The first crime was what gave him 3 felonies... Thank goodness he has family because if he didn't, what the frick is a 58 year old man gonna do when getting out of jail after 36 years? Like the old man in Shawshank redemption...
Posted on 8/30/19 at 3:38 pm to TechDawg2007
Morale of story:
Don't steal
Don't steal
Posted on 8/30/19 at 3:59 pm to SUB
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$50 in 1984 is about $350 today
So
Dudes that rape people get.....probation so they don't have their whole lives ruined.
Great laws America laws that make total sense
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:28 pm to TigersSEC2010
This dude robbed and stole shite from people. He was a multiple convicted felon who thought he was going to scam his way through life and got served. It is amazing how you stay out of jail when you don't break the law.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:33 pm to sugar71
People are tired of being robbed.
I'm not sympathetic.
I'm not sympathetic.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:38 pm to TechDawg2007
Armed robbery becomes "stealing [whatever victim had]."
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