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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 4:50 pm to USMEagles
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:50 pm to USMEagles
quote:I think that was just a 'tree fiddy' joke. According to this inflation calculater it would be around $129.
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.
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:54 pm to sugar71
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I concede that it wasn't shoplifting,but life for $50 bucks & 3 strikes for a single previous break-in is complete bs
So we shouldn't lock up habitual offenders? What do we do? Keep letting them off so they can find new victims?
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:57 pm to TechDawg2007
Think of all the people he was unable to rob with an armed handgun over the course of 36 years
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:58 pm to fallguy_1978
We definitely should. I'm not a fan of mandatory sentencing though. At the same time, I'm sure he was aware of the law at the time and still decided to shoot his shot so I don't feel all that bad for him. It's not like it's hard to not commit felonies.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 4:59 pm to Displaced
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The title makes me sympathetic.
The rest of the article makes me say, "oh well"
Yep
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:00 pm to TechDawg2007
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since it was his fourth offense
frick him
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:10 pm to fr33manator
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We need to enact transport to a penal colony instead of imprisonment for repeat offenders
Where do you think you are right now?
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:15 pm to northshorebamaman
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It's not like it's hard to not commit felonies.
I think the vast majority of people that have committed 3+ felonies will commit more. I'm sure there are exceptions but I bet it's 90+%. Not sure how I feel about the mandatory sentencing. I'm sure some people with fairly petty crimes have gotten caught up in that.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:21 pm to Displaced
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The title makes me sympathetic.
The rest of the article makes me say, "oh well"
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The underlying reason why Kennard, a man who now lives in the faith-based wing of Donaldson Correctional Facility, was sentenced to life without parole for the robbery of Highlands Bakery in 1983 was because he had been previously convicted of three non-violent property crimes.
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.
His crimes are not the kind of shite that should put a person behind bars for life. Ever. Being indifferent to how ridiculous the punishment was in cases like this is how we've ended up wit a massively fricked up prison system that is more interested in profits than actual rehabilitation.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:24 pm to fallguy_1978
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So we shouldn't lock up habitual offenders? What do we do? Keep letting them off so they can find new victims?
Should he have gone to jail for a while? Sure. A life sentence for that? GTFO with that idiotic bullshite. The point of jail in the majority of crimes is SUPPOSED to be rehabilitation so the person can become a productive member of society.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:35 pm to TechDawg2007
36 years in prison probably saved his life and someone else’s life...... with that record at 22, armed robbery was probably his next step.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 5:51 pm to olgoi khorkhoi
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Sentence may have been harsh, but he may also have continued armed robberies had he got off light.
Light would’ve been 10-20 years instead of life without parole
And by the 4 strike rule the knife didn’t much matter. In fact if it made it easier to get away he was incented to use it by the rule.
This post was edited on 8/30/19 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 8/31/19 at 9:13 am to TechDawg2007
The amount of money shouldn't determine the sentence. It should be the crime itself.
If that bakery had $1M on hand, he'd have stolen a million.
Same as murder vs attempted murder. Trying to kill someone and failing is the exact same as killing and succeeding.
If that bakery had $1M on hand, he'd have stolen a million.
Same as murder vs attempted murder. Trying to kill someone and failing is the exact same as killing and succeeding.
This post was edited on 8/31/19 at 9:14 am
Posted on 8/31/19 at 9:35 am to TechDawg2007
Oh well
Posted on 8/31/19 at 9:37 am to TechDawg2007
That guy is going to go ape shite on society
Posted on 8/31/19 at 9:54 am to TechDawg2007
I like that law. If you’ve committed 4 offenses, it’s time to put you up permanently
Posted on 8/31/19 at 9:59 am to TechDawg2007
Even if Alvin is "reformed" now, how many more crimes would he have committed in those 36 years? And how many more did he commit prior to his 4th conviction without being caught?
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:45 am to Joshjrn
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The average person has zero idea how much "time" a given "crime" carries.
And the average person doesn’t intentionally commit crime.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:59 am to Vegetative State
quote:to be fair, neither does the system
I guess he never understood what life without parole meant
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:00 am to northshorebamaman
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I think that was just a 'tree fiddy' joke.
Jesus I'm dense.
Yeah, $129,000 sounds about right.
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