re: Update: Alleged Perp in custody: Garret James Ward of BR for 2nd Degree murder

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I have seen to crazy crap suggested on forums in my life but that one takes the cake.

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that barely touches the crazy scale compared to some of the daily posts on the poliboard

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At Angola, oh hell yeah. There is a separate work protocol for hard labor sentences. They do the hardest work, rarely get days off and if there is no work in the fields they do indoor work.

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This is totally incorrect. "At hard labor" in Louisiana means "in prison." "Without hard labor" means you're either on probation or serving a Parish jail sentence.

There is no difference in work based upon sentence at Angola. There's separation based on security classification (Camp J), but there are murderers in the library (and at the governor's mansion) and multiple billed drug dealers working in the fields.

A few years ago, someone I knew killed his girlfriend and then himself. He was a guy who who had worked for a large oil company and had a graduate degree. He had been arrested once before, for a DUI. I had never seen him be violent before and had never heard of him getting in a fight or acting violent with others. He didn't drink a ton when I knew him, mostly he smoked weed and drank but not to the point of losing control or forgetting anything.

Still, when I got the call of a murder/suicide, I took it for what it was. It's possible he was threatening her with a gun, accidentally killed her, and then shot himself out of a combo of guilt, sadness, and fear (of Angola/OPP), but even that is not exactly a favorable account.

I guess what I am saying to ED Osteen, Caterpillar, and others is that people have a ton of capacity to do fricked up things that we don't see.

I think the most charitable reality in this case is that he was threatened by a weak looking old man and really over-estimated the threat. And then he got lucky with some placements of his punches and in the moment, he couldn't stop himself. That is still far more fricked up than what almost all of us have ever done to another individual. And it is by far the most charitable timeline.

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He could get a plea deal stating in his plea that he serve his time at another prison such as St. Mary Parish, the protected prison. Many more options than him serving any time in OPP.

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He pleas, he doesn’t do Parish. He goes to a state facility.

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The idea is to get to a non-extradition country. I would fly out of Mexico just to make sure I don't pop up on some list trying to fly out of the US. ONce I am in Togo or the UAE I don't care that NOLA knows where I am at.

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Then Dog The Bounty Hunter will resurrect his career by going after him.

If he can swing a $350,000 - $500k bond, sure.

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Here's a hint...it has to do with intent.

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and most garden variety accidents that happen to kill someone aren't done with such intent. Who really gets behind the wheel and says "I'm gonna kill someone"????

now run over them on purpose with your car, or do like the terrorists and mow people down. there's your intent

If I'm facing a long term in prison with very little chance of avoiding it, I head out to the lake or the deer stand and make it look like an accident.

how is this thread 47 pages? is it worth reading?