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Ohio teens given suspended sentence for dropping sandbag off overpass that killed man
Yahoo! ^ | 04/07/18 | Mark Osborne

Posted on 04/07/2018 9:38:23 AM PDT by Simon Green

The four Ohio teens who pleaded guilty to dropping a sandbag off a freeway overpass that killed a 22-year-old man were given a suspended sentence and ordered to a treatment center on Friday.

Marquis Byrd was the passenger in a vehicle that was hit by the sandbag dropped onto Interstate 75 in Toledo last December. Byrd was left in critical condition and died three days later in the hospital.

The four teens, all aged 13 or 14, pleaded guilty to either murder or manslaughter. The boy who dropped the sandbag pleaded guilty to murder while the other three pleaded to involuntary manslaughter, the Toledo Blade reported. The teen who pleaded guilty to murder was sentenced to the Department of Youth Services until he turns 21, while the teens who pleaded guilty to manslaughter were sentenced to three years in the Department of Youth Services.

All four sentences were suspended by the judge in favor of being sent to Toledo's Lucas County Youth Treatment Center.

"It's a treatment facility, for certain services, to provide so these boys change their behavior and can become productive members of our community," Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon said.

The decision to suspend the teens' sentences and send them to the treatment facility drew outrage from Lillian Diallo, the Byrd family's lawyer, who called the decision "outrageous."

"Suspended what? If you do what? So eight months you get to go home?" Diallo told Toledo ABC station WTVG outside the courtroom following the sentencing. "This child will never be at home. His son will never see him. His mother will never be able to say, 'Hey son, how are you? How's your day?' Touch his face, see his face. This is outrageous."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: crime; injustice; ohio; toledo
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To: utax

Those kids dropped a rock...not the same as the sandbag kids.


101 posted on 04/07/2018 12:50:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Rock, sandbag, boat anchor - will kill you just as dead.


102 posted on 04/07/2018 1:01:29 PM PDT by utax
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To: Simon Green

Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon

103 posted on 04/07/2018 1:05:53 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Sacajaweau

Are they black??


104 posted on 04/07/2018 1:13:01 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Iron Munro

Another brame-dead liberal hag judge.

she’d look better with a mouthful of broken teeth.


105 posted on 04/07/2018 1:16:35 PM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: Ann Archy

See Post 89...Names only...no pics...


106 posted on 04/07/2018 1:21:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: hal ogen

“The judge proves that you can be a moron and be a judge.

But then we all knew that, didn’t we?”


107 posted on 04/07/2018 1:23:49 PM PDT by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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To: Gasshog

This photo is mucho kinder to her...and MY EYES!

108 posted on 04/07/2018 1:25:45 PM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: Cicero

Don worry Teens of Color, Granny Goodwitch gonna make sure you gets your Super Sugar Crisp


109 posted on 04/07/2018 1:30:45 PM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: Simon Green
All four sentences were suspended by the judge in favor of being sent to Toledo's Lucas County Youth Treatment Center. "... so these boys change their behavior and can become productive members of our community," Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon said.

A woman judge. What a surprise.

110 posted on 04/07/2018 1:52:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: mewzilla

Thanks for that link - just about what we could expect. I’m sure she’s proud of the job she’s NOT doing - as long as it sounds good, that’s all that matters. Feel good judging - that’s the ticket! Of course, she’s a proponent of exactly the same thing that FL schools went for and look where it got them!

“”Judge Cubbon’s program is gaining nationwide recognition; she was a lead panelist during the briefing where she spoke about alternatives used in Lucas County. Nationwide, there is an emerging trend of jurisdictions moving away from locking up children.

Alternatives to incarceration include diversion programs that focus on truancy and behavioral issues in school in order to prevent the school to prison pipeline””


111 posted on 04/07/2018 2:07:26 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Ann Archy

See pics at Post 42.


112 posted on 04/07/2018 2:12:52 PM PDT by utax
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To: Simon Green
... Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon said.

If that doesn't scream "affirmative action Progressive" I don't know what does. She will have blood on her hands within a year of their release.

113 posted on 04/07/2018 2:18:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Cicero

She could be a sister to a rabid dem liberal in my office.


114 posted on 04/07/2018 2:50:31 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: budj

Probably.

Neil Burnside would have retired years ago and sending Sandbaggers in stopped with it.


115 posted on 04/07/2018 2:51:46 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Simon Green

It is outrageous.

Because the murder victim was a man, the teens get off very lightly. Mens lives in this gdam country are worth nothing.

If it was a woman e gynocentric courts would have crucified the boys.


116 posted on 04/07/2018 3:01:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Simon Green

Sounds like a glorified healing circle to make sure the four killers see themselves as victims.


117 posted on 04/07/2018 3:48:04 PM PDT by DPMD
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To: Simon Green

So exactly how many people do you have to kill before they decide that any punishment is warranted?


118 posted on 04/07/2018 4:20:48 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: VRWCarea51

You would execute a 13 year old

Not me nor would most Christians


119 posted on 04/07/2018 4:43:23 PM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: dfwgator

People here. Life in prison is worse than execution but it’s really not people get used to prison even bad Penitentiaries but I’ve seen killers fear the gas chamber or the electric chair


120 posted on 04/07/2018 4:44:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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