Posted on 11/03/2014 5:23:57 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
After his conviction, Wright faced up to eight years in prison, but in September, a judge sentenced him to just 90 days and barred him from ever holding public office again. On Friday, Wright reported to the Los Angeles County jail to begin serving his term.
But California’s prison system is overflowing with so many inmates that they have no room for a nonviolent offender with no prior convictions. Wright was processed, booked and released after just over an hour.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department told the Sacramento Bee that Wright received no special treatment. Prison authorities use a formula to calculate which offenders are sent to prison and when they are released. State prisons, which are facing pressure from courts to reduce crowding, ship prisoners to county jails, creating crowded conditions at the local level.
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“...to just 90 days and barred him from ever holding public office again. “
That’ll teach him.
Sen. Rod Wright
a possible Revrunt Wright relative...
given his new notoriety he may land a new Obama Cabinet Post
Convicted for voter fraud, eh?
I thought that never happens.
I remember this happening with Lindsay Lohan. She was sentenced to 90 days, or something like that, and the TMZ guy said: she’ll be out in 15 minutes. They’ll make her sit there for the 15 minutes and then they’ll let her go. And that’s exactly what happened.
Talk about your “security theatre”!
“being convicted of eight counts of perjury and voter fraud”
Sorry, I don’t see any rationale for a 90 day sentence here. Sure, they were nonviolent offenses. But this man’s crimes undermined the very system that is supposed to make our method of selecting leaders fair and honest. IMHO, that’s worse than say, petty theft of public intoxication (both of which can carry 90 day sentences in California, IIRC).
Interesting, but the fact is that first offender, non-violent prisoners in CA serve no time. Most of the offenses are drug related.
In Whatcom Count, WA, the Democrat running for the state senate seat from the north part of the county doesn’t live in the district, either. Everyone knows that he doesn’t, but a woman, who lives on the southern edge of the district let him use the address of a vacant home that she owns and has not been able to sell because of the coal terminal and coal trains going past. The Republican supports the coal terminal, the democrat does not. It might be a close call, since Lynden is in the district, I will bet that the R still wins.
This is just another example of a judge scratching the legislator's back. The powerful look out for each other.
He can’t run for public office again.
He is deemed to have served his sentence because there’s no place to jail him.
California’s prisons are overflowing. People who commit nonviolent crimes are simply credited with time served.
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“At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out `Silence!’ and read out from his book, `Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.’
Everybody looked at Alice.
`I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice.
`You are,’ said the King.
`Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen.
`Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,’ said Alice: `besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.’
`It’s the oldest rule in the book,’ said the King.
`Then it ought to be Number One,’ said Alice.”
Worth a smile.
And the punishment is so...harsh. I bet he will never do that again.
He’ll never be President.
Thank heaven for small favors.
full of illegals no doubt
This was a state criminal sanction. Maybe he will try to one-up Obama. After the Kenyan president comes the candidate that was banned in California.
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