Missouri DOC forgets to tell convicted armed robber to report to prison...

[Black]

....for 13 years.
http://news.yahoo. com/armed-robber- never-told-report-prison-19514674 3.html

[Ombligo]

Hopefully common sense will prevail and the sentence will be commuted. But I won't put any money on that happening.

[RAMd®d]

Hopefully common sense will prevail and the sentence will be commuted.


Yeah, because it was only a BB gun and he's really a good guy.


Megaro doubted that strategy would work. He said the law does not allow credit for time served when the convicted person was not behind bars.

"I don't think that's an option, unfortunately," Megaro said.

If only his lawyer had been thinking that clearly earlier. As a officer of the court, he had a duty to do more than just say "Hey, maybe they'll forget all about you".

That strategy came back to bite him. Had he turned himself in back then, he probably would have been out long before now.

In the here and now, he should do a year and a day and then maybe be released.

But to argue that he shouldn't be held responsible at all is ridiculous.

[Blankity Blank]

RAMd®d wrote:
Hopefully common sense will prevail and the sentence will be commuted.


Yeah, because it was only a BB gun and he's really a good guy.


Megaro doubted that strategy would work. He said the law does not allow credit for time served when the convicted person was not behind bars.

"I don't think that's an option, unfortunately," Megaro said.

If only his lawyer had been thinking that clearly earlier. As a officer of the court, he had a duty to do more than just say "Hey, maybe they'll forget all about you".

That strategy came back to bite him. Had he turned himself in back then, he probably would have been out long before now.

In the here and now, he should do a year and a day and then maybe be released.

But to argue that he shouldn't be held responsible at all is ridiculous.

Yeah, a wash just doesn't add up.

IF he's really led as upstanding a life as the media is implying between the lines, which makes for a very 'feel good', neat and tidy narrative, but I suspect bears further examination, then I can give him substantial consideration; he's effectively more 'rehabilitated than many who have served their sentences.

I'd be fine with them calling it square by figuring the minimum time he would have served with good behavior, etc. -- call it 4 years or so (Or whatever it would have been; I don't know how the actual calculation is made) -- and put him on probation for that amount of time.

Regardless of the DOC screwing up big time, he knew he had a sentence to serve, he didn't need an attorney or anyone else to tell him that, so he's got no little weight to carry on this and needs to take the hit now that his string has played out.

[Speedy]

I can empathize ever so slightly. I got a citation for hitchhiking when I was a freshman in college. The judge sentenced me to five days or $10. I said I'll take the five days. Then he got up and left the court along with all the other court personnel. I didn't have the $10 so I headed for the jail which was in the same building; it seemed like the thing to do. The guards didn't know what to do with me and they couldn't get ahold of the judge right away to see what was up. They told me the court officer should have taken me into custody and arranged for me to be locked up. They said I could come back later that day which I did and when I returned they had figured out what to do with me. After 24 hours in the lockup my roommate had raised the $10 for the fine and got me out.

[RAMd®d]

and put him on probation for that amount of time.

Fair enough.

[Black]

Speedy wrote:
I can empathize ever so slightly. I got a citation for hitchhiking when I was a freshman in college. The judge sentenced me to five days or $10. I said I'll take the five days. Then he got up and left the court along with all the other court personnel. I didn't have the $10 so I headed for the jail which was in the same building; it seemed like the thing to do. The guards didn't know what to do with me and they couldn't get ahold of the judge right away to see what was up. They told me the court officer should have taken me into custody and arranged for me to be locked up. They said I could come back later that day which I did and when I returned they had figured out what to do with me. After 24 hours in the lockup my roommate had raised the $10 for the fine and got me out.

If you spent 24 hours in the lockup shouldn't you have only owed $8?