CNN says her sentence was stayed pending her appeal.
She'll never serve a day in jail, mark my words...
I'll mark your words but you're wrong.
She's going to jail where she belongs. I thought the sentence to be very fair, five months in jail and five months in-house arrest.
It isn't so much the amount of her crime. It's that she lied and connived so damn arrogantly. No one has the right to ignore a law as not applicable to them.
Let me tell a personal story. I have a nephew, very good-looking but frankly tween me and you, a bit stupid. For whatever reason, he is the most arrogant of arrogant SOB's. He smokes dope quite a bit. This past year he was put on probation at the University of Tampa for smoking dope out in the student quadrangle. I add this as indicator of his arrogance. Couldn't he have smoked his dope in a bathroom?
Anyway, right before he was due to graduate high school, he got caught with a "roach" in his car. At the time he had already been caught with marijuana at school and was given three day suspension.
Finally the school authorities had it with his constantly flipping the bird at the rules. He was put on house arrest and not allowed to graduate on stage with his class.
Now my sister, his grandmother, and my niece, his mother, were all in a rage over this. *I* was not. The brat deserved what he got and still it didn't teach him a lesson.
My sister and niece argued that it was only a roach and the punishment far exceeded the crime. Ahhhhhh, but we forget the arrogance factor, do we not?
To those who argue that lovely Martha's sentence does not fit the crime, I compare her sentence to my nephew's. And I ask, how is my nephew's crime worth his punishment? On the surface, it seems harsh.
Whenever anyone displays an arrogance, an "I'm above the law" attitude, well darn that's like putting a bullseye on your back.
And Martha has displayed arrogance in spades and she is hated by the judicial system.
Now ask yourself, if you told your kids not to smoke on the sneak and they not only continued to smoke on the sneak but they also cavalierly lit up in front on you, well wouldn't those arrogant actions make you madder and your punishment harsher?
This woman is a zero, has no remorse and all, and still believes she's going to avoid jail.
She's not. She flipped the bird to the prosecutors and the investigators and STILL she's an arrogrant snob.
And note please that the authorities in both Maryland (my nephew's home) and Florida threw the book at that arrogant boy. I don't suppose he's learned anything but until he does he will not be able to jaywalk without the book being thrown at him. It's what happens when you smirk at our system of laws.