Depressingly, this is getting to be too easy.
Posted on 06/12/2022 2:01:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Ramsey County prosecutors offered Jacob Gunn probation in a plea deal, and the judge sentenced him even more leniently than the agreement called for.
ST PAUL, Minn. — Last August, a St. Paul woman was driving near York Avenue and Frank Street with her boyfriend and their two children — ages 1 and 4 — when they heard gunshots.
It was someone in another car shooting at them.
Three bullets hit their red Denali on the driver's side door, rear passenger door and back of the vehicle.
The woman called 911 as she raced away from the car, trying to lose it in traffic, and police quickly stopped the other driver near the East Team Police Station.
Inside the car, St. Paul Police found a live round, a magazine in the door and a gun with another extended magazine. The .40-caliber rounds matched the spent cartridge casings in the intersection where the shots were fired.
Police arrested 19-year-old Jacob Gunn, and the Ramsey County Attorney charged him with drive-by shooting and assault with a dangerous weapon.
According to St. Paul Police reports, they found Gunn's DNA on a spent shell, further tying him to the crime.
Fast-forward nearly a year, Gunn pleaded guilty in Ramsey County Court in a plea agreement that will keep him out of prison and out of jail. Prosecutors offered him probation.
And now, several people aware of the case are asking, "Why?"
A Ramsey County Attorney's Office spokesman in a statement said in part that the victim's boyfriend — who was with her in the red Denali — died as they were preparing for trial.
"Due to the lack of witnesses, we reached an agreement with Mr. Gunn to secure a plea of guilty to Count 2, with a stay of execution — a felony conviction and probation without prison time," the statement reads.
And when it came time to being sentenced last Friday, Judge Joy Bartscher went even more lenient than plea agreement called for.
According to the sentencing order, Gunn will serve 120 days of house arrest with work release. Judge Bartscher gave him a stay of imposition for his sentence, which means if he successfully completes four years of probation, his felony assault with a deadly weapon for shooting a car with kids inside will be reduced to a misdemeanor.
THESE Are the judges that need culling
See, see! Trump’s racist and homophobic tweets again!
Attempted murder = probation.
Don’t think I want to live there.
Judge should be unemployed Monday morning. No farewell, no gather your crap, we’ll send it to you in a box. You’re fired, you screwed up unimaginably bad.
So what good are new gun control laws if they don’t have anyone willing to enforce them?
Walk around the U.S. capitol with a cellphone? To the Gulag!
We need to take this country back before they destroy it completely.
“A Ramsey County Attorney’s Office spokesman in a statement said in part that the victim’s boyfriend — who was with her in the red Denali — died as they were preparing for trial.
“Due to the lack of witnesses, we reached an agreement with Mr. Gunn to secure a plea of guilty to Count 2, with a stay of execution — a felony conviction and probation without prison time,” the statement reads.”
Due to lack of witnesses cause her boyfriend who was in car, died before trial. What?
So if I have my kids in a car and myself and my car gets shot up, nothing can be done because no one else was in the car?
Insane
Depressingly, this is getting to be too easy.
The trail of evidence was more than circumstantial. There was real matching of the spent cartridges, including DNA and with the weapon found in possession at time of arrest. The presence of an eyewitness to the actual event would have only a supporting piece, but not crucial to arrive at a just conclusion.
This is judicial nullification. Or perhaps a DA that did not want to press the case.
I’m about 20 minutes away from Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Haven’t been to either one since ol’ what’s-his-name OD’d in Minnepolis.
Arkancides help out in so many ways. (BTW, 'Arkancide' now appears on my spellchecker.)
Much like Wa state and our new probable cause laws. Cops virtually have to see the perp do the crime to arrest them. A witness' word is not good enough
How far will reparations go , Murder ?
I have this sneaking suspicion that the left wants its favored victim group to get away with all of its crime.
This is sickening.
The shooter is black. If the victims were black then I guess those black lives don't matter.
Yeah
I guessed before I even looked
There’s no way this criminal thug belongs out on the street. He’s either going to get put away for another crime or another thug is going to blow him away.
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