"Patel?"
Posted on 08/28/2016 4:05:49 PM PDT by posterchild
The man who stabbed his wife twice last summer will not be sentenced to prison, a judge determined Thursday afternoon.
Navinkumar Patel, 46, of Shawnee, was arrested in late June 2015 after he stabbed his wife in the abdomen at Lawrence's Super 8 Motel, 515 McDonald Drive, which he owns. He pleaded no contest to felony charges of attempted second-degree murder and criminal threat in March.
After Patel's plea, Douglas County District Court Judge Robert Fairchild ordered him committed to Larned State Hospital for a mental health evaluation.
Thursday, Patel appeared in court to be sentenced. Fairchild sentenced him to probation, the terms of which have not yet been decided, however.
In court, the doctor who evaluated him, Bradley Grinage, testified that Patel suffers from bipolar disorder, an illness that was exacerbated by alcohol addiction.
If Patel stops drinking and continues to take his medication, Grinage said he is at a low risk for a repeat offense.
More than a dozen of Patel's family members, including his wife, showed up in court Thursday to support him. Many wrote letters to Fairchild, asking him to sentence Patel to probation.
Patel's attorney, John Kerns, called the case "unusual, to say the least."
Kerns told Fairchild that in the Hindu culture of Patel's family, his wife and children would also suffer if he were sentenced to prison. They would essentially be "ostracized," he said.
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It’s their custom to stab their wives. We must respect that.
[Kerns told Fairchild that in the Hindu culture of Patel’s family, his wife and children would also suffer if he were sentenced to prison. They would essentially be “ostracized,” he said.]
Sorry, this isn’t India. Attempted murder is just that.
Jason Isbel-SUPER 8. “I don’t want to die in a Super 8 motel....” Lyrics. I know, insensitive....
Is “Patel” Indian for “Motel Owner”?
I believe that the Patels operate 99% of all Super 8 motels.
Anyone clue this guy and his family in that they’re living in America? They OWN PROPERTY and a BUSINESS IN AMERICA?
Oh, wait. I keep forgetting that our laws are completely subjective and are enforced, or not, at will, by rogue judges.
Never mind...
Wonder what the outcome would’ve been had this been, say, a straight, white, CHRISTIAN, heterosexual male suffering from mental illness?
Hmmmmm....
The prospects are good that next summer, he will only stab her once.
Better to be Osterized.
My Christian faith suffers when I see baby killing and homosexuals. Excuse there?
Earlier articles on the case noted that he stabbed her because she was ‘overweight.’
It’s their custom to stab overweight wives. Who are we to judge?
"Patel?"
They would essentially be “ostracized,” he said.
Then maybe they would have a good reason to assimilate with the rest of America.
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His religion is bi-polar disease aggravated by alcohol addiction?
Today of course, they would haul Napier before the UN Commission on Human Rights, (and of course Churchill would be in a dungeon somewhere)! /sarcasm;)
I think it has to be. Every single rinky-dink hotel is owned by one of them.
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