Judge LOSES PATIENCE with Repeat Offender, Hands Down 40-Year Max!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Today we’re in Judge Gauthier’s courtroom for a sentencing hearing. The defendant has multiple open cases and convictions and has finally run out of chances. The court has extended the defendant repeated opportunities for treatment and recovery, but rather than follow through with those, he continues to pick up new cases, violating his probation on multiple occasions. Judge Gauthier is at his wits’ end with this defendant, and today is his day of reckoning. Watch to the very end to see the Public Defender’s arguments, and the logic behind Judge Gauthier’s final ruling!
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When I was a Prison Officer I knew an inmate who was very nice, cordial, etc. He was supposed to do 40, but he did 20 and they let him out on parole. He was back in 3 months.
i suppose after 20 years people don't even know how to live on the outside
My maternal Uncle spent 42 years in prison. He tried to reconnect to with the family. Its been a fiasco the past 5 years or so.
He lives by himself, 650 miles from family and very few of us choose to associate by phone or text.
When I lived about an hour from Hin we got together for A 4th of July and one BBQ. Then shit went sideways.
His prison thinking kicked back in and he tried to be all tough guy with me and my wife and stepkids. Showing up unannounced, banging on the door.
I almost shot him.
He made the choice to be an 'Outlaw'. The consequences are more than I care to dig into.
It's tragic and infuriating.
@@rauladdams5709that's sad
That was my brother.
I've been in county jail and have seen several times someone be released in the morning and return the same night
Imagine getting a warrant for something you did in jail
Get locked up in Florida and find out you fight anyone it's assault on a detainee and mandatory 5 year hit
how is that possible?
@@R.C_msjpeople commit offenses in jail all the time. Homemade alcohol, drugs, fighting, violence, stabbings, etc.
@@MsJennaBuchanan but wouldn't they know were they are? or... I didn't think they need one to search a prisoner.
@@R.C_msj What do you mean "how is that possible"? What did you think happens to a prisoner when they assault another one or something of that nature?
He thought he was going to get off again,wrong!!!!
How do you know what he thought?
Exactly. Thought he'd be out
@@andrewvelonis5940how do you know what he didn't think?
We don’t. But we didn’t make the assertion that we knew what he didn’t think. The Original poster did, so burden of proof is on them.
No he didn't.
always the victim never at fault imagine that.
Obviously a few people have forgotten addiction is a DISEASE!
There but for Grace of good ho I!
Never will understand the mindset that you are helpless and unable to resist the bad choices you make. Apparently the concept of free will is too difficult for some to entertain.
@@KimCheeto4Have you tried to understand "that mindset"
@@lisajeter9511 Addiction may or may not be a disease, and most folk with a disease will try to get a cure and not infect others with their disease.
However, this arrogant arse, even after been given multiple chances won't seek a cure for his so called 'disease' and to add insult to injury he technically infects others with his disease by being involved in the sale and distributing drugs.
The judge should have doubled up the sentence, and hopefully if he appeals his sentence, he will get an increase, not a reduction.
@@KimCheeto4yes and he has 3 kids , you’d think he wanted to be clean for them , sad .
If I was busted one time I’d not take anymore chances to get arrested again. These clowns get busted again and again and again.
ive done illegal stuff, Ive gotten caught doing illegal stuff. I just take it on the chin, call my lawyer, and behave like a responsible adult. im not a drug dealer, but I could have caught a felony the last time the cops had an interaction with me. I wound up with a $10 parking ticket.
amazing how well doing things the easy way can work out better.
@@nicholastrawinski Doing illegal shit IS the easy way. That's why so many people do it.
Working hard, finding legal ways to make ends meet... that shit is hard.
I have sold drugs, I've done worse than that too. I've definitely been around when MUCH worse shit was being done by people I was close with.
After half of my friends went to prison for decades, I cleaned up my act. I'm lucky to have not been there when the shit went down, as I was on my way but got stopped for running a red light, and that escalated because my passenger had a small amount of weed on him. We were on our way to what would become the scene of a much larger crime, that made the news. It was one of the biggest busts in the area in the 90s.
I don't believe in God, necessarily. But someone was looking out for me that day and I'm not taking that shit for granted.
With all do respect, I'm a recovering coke addict. 3 years sober. Addicts aren't clowns. I do understand being fed up with this behavior. I get it's repetitive and he earned a lawful punishment. No doubt. But addicts aren't clown. Something happened in life to each addict that triggered the start of drug use. And I know what you're gonna say, "I've struggled without falling to addiction". Good for you, if that's the case. Not everyone is built that way. We don't need to make addicts feel worse. It'll take what hope they have left to come out on the otherside sober and they'll turn right back to drugs when they feel all they are is a joke. BUT it's completely valid to be done with the behavior and deal the lawful punishment earned. It's okay to be irritated and pissed off. But we should all try hard to say kinder things in most stern ways when necessary. That's all 😊
I interned at a court probation office and I told my boss how shocked I was with so much crime. I hypothesized that if everyone was on their best behavior, criminal court would be out of busienss. He said I got it wrong - most criminals commit crimes because their intent is to not get caught, so this defendant did all these crimes with the intent to not get caught - - but I agree, once I'm in trouble I try my best to stay on the up and up so as not to attract attention to myself
@@nicholastrawinskikeep it up your days are numbered.... Realize you could end up in jail for years or worse an attorney can only help you so many times.... Common sense 😂
This Judge is from the county i live in. He's fair but strict! I watch him all the time and love him.
Those kids don’t need him. He needs to be in jail
Facts he wasn’t worried about them when he kept doing drugs
@@MackWithDa17kidsyup my gf finally called cps on her friend amazing crack addicted mom has 9 year old son who weighs 170lbs no personality nothing left in kid poor kid is a zombie
You’re right! I regret I had a monkey on my back. Been 15 years clean and I have beautiful respectful healthy amazing twin identical boys! My boys deserved that opportunity with a dad who was clean.
Those kids need him to be in jail
So he got a minimum of 10 years if he doesnt screw up. Maximum 40 years if he keeps doing what has been.
Yh
Right, so behave get out at 34, still not old enough to be president.
Ohhhh thank you! I thought he gave him 40 years
YEP THAT'S THE WAY I UNDERSTOOD IT 10-40 DEPENDING ON BEHAVIOR
yes and he will be out in 8 possibly
Thank you, Your Honor!🙋💪
I hate it when people in his position say, "I need the help, I want the help" then when they're given the help they take off instead of taking advantage of it. Well, the cards have been dealt, now play the hand you've been given & be grateful they're concurrent and not consecutive.
They get little help and what they do get is pretty shit.
Drug use. No mystery.
@@wynwilliams6977 true they need to put a lot more money into programs to help us addicts instead of just paying someone to baby sit us. I promise you many more lives would be saved if they just payed less money to housing us in prisons and more money to recovery programs and specialty courts. I am a Drug Court Graduate and i have to say It changed my life forever.
Why don't he think of his kids before he gets in trouble. I hate when the use their kids as excuses.
I wish the judge pointed this out. When I had a drink once, it felt strong and I was in near tears scared sh*tless I wouldn't be able to get my toddler son home safely. I wasn't drunk or even tipsy, but I felt the strong affect after 2 sips and cut myself off. I got home safely and vowed never to do that again. Drinking at home leisurely, fine, but I don't get drunk when it comes to safely caring for my son. When I did get drunk, it was when he was in bed or I was with friends and he was with a sitter
@@HarringJess What were you doing drinking when you had your toddler son??!!!???!!!
Me ex wife did the same thing!
@@thevintagerecipeblogdid you actually read their comment?!?!????!!!!!
“Victim of addiction.”
New victim status for a personal decision? F that.
Addiction is a disease. It is not a moral problem. Science has studied the brains of addicts, which are very different. Studied brains of children of addicts, 1 out of those 3 children have a different brain. If it were just a choice or random we would either all be addicts or none would. No addict enjoys life. It is a living hell. Meth has severe effects on the brain. It's sad.
@@warrenb8228 lol thank you 🤷♀️ that’s what I’ve been trying to say!! 😵💫
Glad someone else caught that too!
I was a active addict for 20 years. "Victim of addiction" has to be the farthest reach of excuse I've heard yet. Not even abused as a child, lost a family member, mental health issues. Lol. Just a plain old victim of addiction. What a fucking joke.
Right!?! Nancy Reagan was right…”Just Say No”
I do not feel sorry for him. He had chances.
I agree but I’m sure he wasn’t in his right frame of mind being on drugs
I disagree. Being addicted to drugs is like a dog in heat, often there’s very little someone can do to stop themselves. It doesn’t mean somebody doesn’t need a certain amount of punishment, sometimes you can still gotta be punished for it. But act like it’s the same as eating too many sweets throughout the day is only something someone would argue that doesn’t understand it.
So I kind of wonder if the addiction facility should be locked instead of completely open. There’s reasons to have either, but they have a locked ward that’s at least somewhat difficult to get out might help people be able to control themselves a little bit more and stay to learn techniques. And not only learn techniques but have a chance to get time to get off the drugs fully before they are expected to have some superman willpower. Sometimes these people spend a few days in jail and then I released, then after they were released they enter a plea agreement to go to rehab, then they go to rehab even though they were just using drugs days before, and we expect them to have the willpower to stay in? There’s a reason rehabs don’t work, and that’s because often than not set up to work well enough.b
@@NY2FL63 Thats a brutal sentence to hand down no light at the end of tunnel 40 years come on like . Lets start handing these sentences out to corupt politicans but that would never happen .
His lawyer stated he was a victim of drugs ,no that's a lie, he is a perpetrator of drugs
It can be both. He started doing drugs > needs money to do drugs > starts selling drugs to get money.
The same of people who do drugs and commit other crimes. Drug addiction sucks
@@Aacomplexname ahh yes, somebody w a brain.
@@Aacomplexnameyou’re not wrong but i know addicts who work hard for their money
and what in the land of the freedom you or anyone else have anything to do with what he do with his body?
How many victims because he is a “victim”?
The LAST thing his kids need is him in their lives...26!??
The defendant's face shows confusion at all the numbers the judge is tossing around, the lawyer's face is frozen in the "Oh, Shit" phase.
His lawyer is an idiot thinking his client is a “victim” of drugs? 🤦♀️
@@CrystleShadowsdude the lawyers job is to defend you. That's why there is a prosecutor, and a judge. Lawyer isn't there to judge or prosecute you. Just like police and judges can't give legal advice , because that's the lawyers job
@@arizonatea3734 dude… yes defend not say stupid & ridiculous crap & make him a victim..right?!? 🤷♀️
@@CrystleShadows he stated he went to treatment. The lawyer isn't incriminating the guy, not that he needs any help doing that at this point.
@@arizonatea3734 I agree with you in part, what I was referring to was the part around 1:26 where he says his client is a “victim” of his addiction. And I’m just saying he’s no victim 🤷♀️ and we can agree to disagree if that’s the case lol 😊
Now THAT'S gonna leave a mark. At least his kids should be better off without him.
Yep, they'll have chance to grow and develop, but it also depends on the Mother or Parent who brings them up and the amount of contact with him.
By the time he gets out, his kids will be collecting social security.
💀
If Michigan good time laws are anything like where I live he'll be out in 20.
Pretty much
@@l7986If it’s a non•violent offense you serve 85% and 2 for 1 good behavior! Getting out early is not in the best interest b/c it tells ppl they don’t have to take full accountability! Some I have heard say well I’ll get half the time if I’m good like it’s planned on!
Perhaps. Cuz he’s not very bright. But the concurrent sentences help him quite a bit. I think the longest one was 10-40. So if he keeps his nose clean he will be out in 8.5 I think. Not likely tho. Probably 20ish
WoWwww..he threw his life away!
I bet he regrets his actions and giving the 🐦 to the court..oh, well.
No, he threw some of his life away. He can still make the most of that time
Yes he threw it away but it took him quite a few throws.
Whip out the WHINE. Whip out the verbal abuse. Whip out the laundry list of diagnostic terms people use to try and excuse their behavior and poor me professional victim mode. Immediately cue fake tears, sanctimonious outrage, false claims and outright LIES. Immediately deploy the professional victim textbook and victimology textbook.
If he wanted help he wouldnt of walked out of the addiction centre
Absolutely
wouldn't HAVE*
You seem to think it's just a matter of choice, like choosing between Coke and Pepsi. Clearly you have no understanding of the mechanism of addiction.
If they didn’t treat the mental illness it’s useless. Some people experience mental episodes while coming off of drugs
@@TonyRuleu must be a addict trying to take up for him as if he had one slip up
@@MackWithDa17kids Your profiling attempt is a 100% fail.
This guy’s kids DON’T need him.
Children need their father. That is a disgusting thing to say.
@@Mark-jb9hxnot in all cases lol, and not in this one
Drugs don't jump up and infiltrate your body
Well, when you indulge at a young age… it carries into adulthood. No excuses for your own decisions, but, it’s a hard battle to overcome. Especially when you were raised around it.
I mean they kinda do lol. Everyone literally do drugs from day one lol
Hahaha yes they do! Silly, every addict says they do... so it must be 👍 true
I feel for the defense attorney, he’s trying his hardest but his client is not helping himself or just don’t care
I don't feel for him. That is his job. He wanted to do this.
No he is a scumbag like his client. No one forces him to defend these scumbags.
Any experienced defense attorney has experienced the same problem. Then there are the ones for whom you get a really good deal and they complain that you failed to get the case dismissed.
He’s a public defender. He’s only there to make sure his rights aren’t violated.
That Judge didn't fuck around for sure!!!!!!!
He gave him too many chances already
Some people don't need to ever be free
why? what someone using drug (without harm anyone) change your life? you my friend, is a tyrant
Seems simple to me that if you don't take drugs or commit crimes, you won't go to prison for the best years of your life.
But then we wouldn't have shows like cops and Mandoo.
Rehabilitation- in jail!!
Jail could be just another place to get drugs !
Jail ain't rehab, but this guy needs to be locked up. He should've stayed in rehab when he had the chance! 😮@@sharonamara9718
and i hate to tell you but its easier to find drugs in prison than it is on the streets. just sayin
I’m a victim of my aunt being on methamphetamines drug delivery running from the police search warrants my grandmother and grandfather beam beat up. My sister being beat up because she was the same age group as my aunt my aunt spitting in the swat teams face! Plus, she had drug dealers around her two children and my grandparents and my sister. My sister was only spending the night with my grandparents. She has stolen from my grandfathers checkbook in the 80s had all these criminals around my grandparents, her children and my family and she still to this day. She is 65 years old. She is in the federal prison in Ohio From Louisiana! She consistently calls every single day, her family members and ask her sister for MONEY & IPADS!!!!
She doesn’t asked her children she asked her sister!!!! Now in 2028 she will be returning to society again. She will be around the same people now. She will have my mother around these people and I’m not having it because I don’t play that shit. She can have her own children involved in that shit she won’t have my mama, my mother has never been around drugs besides her sister bringing it to her home but this will not happen in my family nor not again she’s 65. She’ll be 69 years old and my mother will be in her 80s. It’s not gonna happen on my oh my watch ever! People quit feeling sorry for these people. They don’t give a shit about their families.
Sorry for your tribulations but you are 100% correct, junkies and losers only care about themselves, not the consequences of those around them.
@chele-chele While I agree with you, I can say addiction is an illness. However, you can develop that illness by introducing drugs/alcohol into your system. We can all have that addiction gene, as it doesn't indiscriminate, but some of us choose not to tempt it!
@@shellyann8818🙄 addiction gene. Sure
Well said.
Amen.
Those sentences should have run consecutively.
That is soooo much time. He will be like 25 different people in that time. That was a wild sentence
particularly for the drugs? nah, that's not how that works, nor is fair. Heinous crimes, on the other hand, usually results in consecutive sentences.
Im not sure I think consecutive sentences should exist at all. I mean logically you are serving them at the same time because they are different crimes.
@@joshuawidener8407 depends on who you did it to, duration, severity, being felonious, being heinous. Say a criminal were to commit several crimes in one day, usually those terms would run concurrent, in which the fugitive serves out the crime with the longest sentence, as it will trump all. If it was a negotiated case, much less jail time, and probations are attached.
@@Taco_ocaT But it'd take a lot of paroling before he gets out!
I don't understand sentencing someone to not less than 85 months nor more than 40 years. Why just not pick one number? How long is he going to be in jail?
Lol I think they get confused 😵💫 it’s kinda like sentencing someone to death & then takes them 30 or 40 yrs to follow through with it or not
🤦♀️🤷♀️
The judge is giving him a chance but at the same time insuring public safety. He has to serve those 85 months(7 yrs). But on parole they can hold him for the rest of that time. So 33 years of probation. That's too make sure if he gets out and still wants to commit crimes he'll have that 33 years hanging on top of his head along with any new charges. The judge is insuring if he doesn't change he will be gone forever. He is being pretty lenient.
If they behave themselves in prison, they can possibly be paroled after the lesser amount of time. If they misbehave or commit infractions, however, they will have to serve the maximum.
@@samcooper1761 I see. Thank you.
It’s like when you get 25 to life my understanding is after the 25 you’re able to go before the parole board which doesn’t mean you will get out after the 25 but you could possibly. So I wonder if that’s what they do in that state meaning he will have to serve atleast 87 months before he can get parole or probation
If you have a lawyer with a suit like that you're getting some time!
That's not a suit; it's a sports jacket and coordinating slacks combo.
Y'all bad😂😂😂😂
Tired of excuses!!! Get help in prison.
It pisses me off he' s saying he' s a VICTIM of addiction! NO YOU ARE NOT! YOU chose to take drugs in the first place ffs! It' s stupidity beyond belief to claim you' re a victim!
Wrong. Some people have it encoded in their DNA.
You or I could ingest a substance and be fine where as another person could immediately freefall into full blown addiction.
@@ROOKTABULA Wrong weak minded people.
@@ROOKTABULA This is absolutely not true. You do not have an addiction "coded" into your dna whatever that means. Addiction is awful and not a "choice" like the original poster said but it is certainly is not genetic. You do not try cocaine and as you put it "immediately into full blown addiction." Curious were you get these odd "facts" from.
@@elhior23You cannot get addicted if you do not take drugs!?
@@court_watcher Yes you are correct. Yet we still deal with the awful crippling affect of addiction across the country. Sometimes people get hooked on prescription drugs and when they can't find them anymore they turn to illegal. It is just such a strange take to say it is a choice. People make mistakes for so many different reasons.
Drug addiction is only as simple as you seem to believe it is if you are a simpleton.
Buddy shakes head, looks lost, then nods …
The dude brought this upon himself. Given every opportunity to clean up but chose a life of crime.
Repeatedly!
What crime? Doing drugs? Grow up Karen
@dododostenfiftyseven4096 He was distributing drugs as well. Ran from cops, hit a cop car while running. It may come as a surprise to you drugs do harm and kill people...
@@dododostenfiftyseven4096 User?
"I want the help" as long as it gets me out of prison time. Don't expect me to change any behavior though. Have fun with your life. You don't always get what you wanted but this boy sure did.
He's probably wishing he would have listened to the judge. Instead, he's going to jail.
Prison. He's in jail now.
Some people are incorrigible. To them, a second or seventh chance is not an opportunity to change their behavior, but to do a better job of getting away with it next time. He's probably not wishing he had listened. He's wishing his "disappointed in myself" line had worked just one more time.
@@JNDeaux and then again, and again ...
What the heck. Let's go with consecutively! Time to protect the public.
Michigan’s sentencing laws are very specific as to the circumstances where consecutive sentences may be imposed.
The logical conclusion is all who break any law go to prison for life. He gave sentences within he guidelines set up by the legislature.
They only want help when facing prison. He's had so many chances Judge has to protect the public!
Concurrent sentences. So the man is actually only punished for the longest jail sentence, up to 40 years. All other charges are free. And people wonder why criminals flee, shoot at the police, assault the police. Because they get a package deal. Commit 6 crimes only serve jail for 1.
The judge is throwing him a bone, get your life on track in prison (yeah, that's going to be hard but others have managed it) and be out in less than 10 and maybe get to see your kids graduate. Or, keep being a worthless burden on society and you can maybe spend your twilight years on the outside.
He's a victim of addiction? That's a new one
So by my count, he just got served to a hair under 10 years, with a maximum of 40 if screws up again in prison. So, he'll either be 36 with at least some time to rebuild his life, or 66 with basically no time left because by then he'll certainly be institutionalized. My HOPE is that he can take advantage of prison programs, keep his nose clean, and then perhaps get good time and be out in less than 10. Unfortunately, it may just be too late for this young man.
A victim of addiction????? WTF does that even mean?
99.9% of addictions are self-induced, so he's a victim of his own single digit IQ?
Its insane how many charges this dude has against him its pretty clear drugs have just ruined this mans life, never do meth lol
Drugs didn't ruin his life, he did. Quit making excuses for people.
Ppl who fight that addiction is a disease he made the decision to do drugs for the 1st time and continuing to walk out on help which is also a choice! Addicts can’t be coddled
Love how the scumbag Attorney tries to lie through his teeth and the judge calls BS on him LOL. They look like father-son.
He got nothing to work with, goes to pitty defence😊
That didn't happen. The judge agreed with him. Clean your ears out.
Unfortunately defense attorneys get the crap end of the deal when most of them got into it to defend innocent ppl since 19% of defendants are falsely convicted BUT without defense attorneys we would not have the justice system it all works like a factor! To get the proper results they have to have adequate representation
So hear me out he’s a POS that can’t make a single good decision to literally save his life and jail is the only option. But it’s cases like these where he didn’t unalive anyone and gets all this time and it makes me furious that a person who DOES unalive someone with a dui gets probation or 1 year. The scales of justice just don’t seem balanced here.
He is a victim of his addiction. In prison, please do not spend commissary dollars on prison hooch. He says he tried to do it on his own and failed, but they offered him a venue at taxpayer expense and he refused to go.
When he did it the first time that was a choice though regardless if it led to the disease of addiction he made the choice 1st so ultimately he is still responsible! I have cancer which is a real illness that I never had to do anything choice wise but there is more help for addicts than there is cancer patients! I’ve seen addicts on disability for their addiction but I’m out here with 2 attorneys fighting for disability since I was 28yo diagnosed multiple types of cancer w/a colostomy, feeding tube and a port a cath!
The nerve of him saying he has to be let out into society "to take care of his kid." His kid will be far better off without ANY of his influence around.
I truly admire the way the US doles out justice. Repeat offenders getting away with more crime doesn't fly. In Canada it's impossible to sentence these repeat offenders to much incarceration especially for addicts. These offenders are out on the streets all the time.
good dam, my calculator ran outta batterries, adding,subtracting,muliplying, good grief🤔
This man is ruthless he doesn't want to help himself 😥
Possession with intent comes with a maximum of 40 years. Damn.
His Honor said that the concurrent sentencing was required by law. I read a while ago that concurrent sentencing is also required in Texas.
Do lawyers ever consider the possibility that their clients might be lying to them?
They do all the time. Even if a lawyer knows you're guilty by law they still have to represent you and do all they can to get you out of trouble. Otherwise they can get in trouble themselves. But lawyers do have the right to drop a case if they feel like they can no longer handle the case for whatever reason.
I hate states that does this mandatory minimum sentence crap. The defendant and victim doesn’t know how much exactly the sentence is
It’s amazing they always realize they want help for their addiction just before being sentenced. You had your chance and you blew it. Take note young people. Drugs will only get you prison or death.
I have zero sympathy for people who refuse to be part of society.
"I you could just give me probation one more time, there's a deal I could do that would pay those fines"
Can you gauge the strength of the defendant’s case when the defense attorney grapples with finding the right words, stammers, and uh’s?
He is not addicted to drugs - he is addicted to working as little as possible for the most amount of money as a drug dealer. Weed? No problem. I'll take an ounce of Blue Dream.
the problem with addiction is there's always a part of the brain that revels in chaos, even after years of sobriety.
Want to avoid problems with drugs? Don't start, or stop now.
Concurrent sentencing shouldn’t be allowed. If you committed a felony, got sent away for 10 years, got out, and committed another felony, you’d be sent away again. Just because you conveniently commit crimes around the same time and get busted, you shouldn’t be allowed to “bundle” the sentencing.
I totally agree. This concurrent scam really isn't working. ALL sentences should be consecutive, after all the crimes weren't committed concurrently!
Judge that interrupts has no business on the bench.
The VICTIM of addiction? Nope. Just addicted with no desire to stop. This victim crap needs to stop!
This is sad..people like this get put in jail just because they can’t just grow up!
Sad to hear
He has 2 kids who need him?? No he has 2 kids who deffo do NOT need him. The guy can offer nothing but chaos and stress to those kids
How many chances does one person need? He can get treatment in prison, they have programs. Now is time for punishment.
They almost never do them consecutive which makes no sense at all and is part of the problem. If you commit 5 crimes, you should do 5x the sentence....
They all want help when they are going to jail or prison.
9 years 2 months before consider for parole
Mmm - That type of sentence needs to be heard loud and clear. Dont F about with the law. Anyone can make a mistake, to keep doing it - well this is what you get
Deciding to start a drug abuse hobby is not "making a mistake." It is "choosing to do something you know is wrong."
The system is fucked up, had they gave him time in jail the 2nd or 3rd time he might have learned his lesson . But they never punished him and that said to him what im doing is alright. Now look at him. 10 to 40 years, another wasted life. Way to go justice system.
KaBoom. He had it coming. The judge didn't say, but they probably all run concurrent. Concurrent is ridiculous
So many sentences at once, this kid is a mess. I didn't catch how long the total stay will be.
The look on his face is, oh shit I'm done
What does it take for a man to claim his own soul?
So a minimum of 10 years, but 225 days off of that? Maybe parole in 7-8 years with a good behavior?
I can't understand why they get credit of 225days on every case he only served them once so they shud only be credited to one case.
Nice to see a no-nonsense judge, the wrist slaps aren’t working
I don't think this young man thought they would ever get serious and make him serve time. You could see on his face when he knew it was NOW serious. He got real fidgety and I bet he was thinking " I wish I could back this up to where I just needed to stay in treatment and STAY". He almost looked like he wanted to cry. I wonder if he had a day growing up. Is this how he grew up, do something wrong then apologize and swear he wouldn't do it again. Only to do the same thing or even something worse. Did he never get the punishment at home. So he does the same thing with the courts. But, today he finds out that the courts had a time when enough is enough.
How old is he? And already threw away as much as up to half his adult life? Such a fool.
10 years mandatory but with a chance at parole at that time sounds pretty fair for the multitude of felonies and police chase this guy racked up.
More than fair.
I remember the first time I got high in the backseat of a car getting victimized by marijuana. Later I was busted in a hotel room with strippers when I became a victim to cocaine. Once my friends had to manually remove me from a casino when gambling decided to make me a victim. I'm also part of a group called Victims of Porn. It's not an advocacy group for women who got abused by the industry or anything, it's a group basically for dudes who watch porn.
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You're not a victim of anything except bad character. You chose to start a drug abuse hobby, so the only victims are the people you harmed because you wanted to use drugs.
I dunno. I have a hard time believing that the defendant deserves 40 years. Drugs or not, it just does not feel right to me.
The result? He will be back on the street in 18 months and the fines will never be paid. Oh and the taxpayers will support his children!
Another annual cost to the taxpayers of that state. Bravo 😂 perfect waste of money
I wanted to know about consecutive or concurrent also. The look on his face said it all. If the courts would have given him a prison sentence originally, he would have gotten the point a long time ago
The body language of the judge said it all.
You can lay in the ditch long enough to not be able to get out
Did those kids a favor by keeping him away from them
The defense attorney is really doing his best for the guy! You cannot help some people - hopefully he finds AA in prison
He was sentenced to 10 years, not 40.
So all together, that's a minimum of about 27 years, could have just gone to treatment.
Completely emotionless reaction. The judge chose righteously.
7-40 years seems like a very wide range.
I’m so confused how much time he ended up getting.
Here's the thing, I'm guessing he's in his twenties, so he's like 'I'm gonna be 60+ when I get out, well f that' so, likelihood is he Will reoffend cos he don't give a s*** even if he gets out in twenty for Good behaviour!
Being a victim of addiction doesn’t explain or forgive breaking the law or hurting people to get high. I struggled for 20 years, but I damn sure never got arrested or hurt anyone…..other than myself and my family,
This guy thought he was going to continue on his merry way with no severe consequences, boy, the judge dispelled those fantasies quickly! His lawyer needs a tailor too, suit looks like it is cut for a hippo!
Take a good look at him, then think about my age. I am 71, he will be older than me when he gets out ! WOW !