Posted on 07/12/2014 6:56:34 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to 23 years behind bars for fatally shooting a retired police dog during a burglary. Ivins Rosier was convicted in May for breaking into the Florida home of a trooper and shooting the officer's five-year-old German Shepherd two years ago. Drake, a former drug-sniffing dog, was euthanized five days later. Rosier, who was 16 at the time of the incident but tried as an adult, was sentenced on Friday on charges of animal cruelty, armed burglary and shooting into an occupied building.Palm Beach Post reported Circuit Judge Robin Rosenberg said she handed Rosier a tough sentence as she was bound by sentencing guidelines. According to police, Rosier was one of three teens who broke into Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody's home on November 18, 2012. Rosier, who had a history of run-ins with the police, is the first to be tried, according to Palm Beach Post. Sun Sentinel reported that Rosier confessed to police he was the one who shot the dog. During the two-day trial, patrol officer Boody cried as he told the court about returning home from work to find Drake, who he adopted in 2010, wounded. Drake suffered broken limbs, bullet wounds in his head and jaw, massive blood loss and lethal damage to his esophagus.
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Good.
From the article come this egregiously faulty premise: “’If you shoot that dog and he dies, that’s murder of a law enforcement officer,’ DiMola pressed Rosier in the interrogation video.”
DiMola claims dogs are cops - and all along Americans thought they were pigs.
Sounds like he got off light for a repeat burglary offender, who also has a history of sexual assault and false imprisonment (kidnapping where you don’t move the victim to a new location).
Boy should have been taken down to the hood and hanged as a lesson to his buddies. Unless he’s a troublemaker in prison, he’ll be out by the end of the decade.
How long would you give a repeat armed burglar?
He'll serve a quarter of it and return to society as a muscle-bound, 20-something, angry hardened predator with a chip on his shoulder and zero opportunities.
This won't be the last we hear of Ivins Rosier.
I guess my comment was a mixture of what I think I remember and confusion of what is.
I wasn't trying to take the kids side ... just commenting.
“Wanna be thug now has 23 years behind bars think about this and how he should of taken off leaving dog and officer alone.I for one am happy with him getting 23 years. “
Oh, please. All this is is another example of Them being better than Us. I’m all for throwing the book for criminals, but this is ridiculous. Punish the crime a person did equally. If the punishment if fit for an offense against a cop, it should be so for all citizens. You think he’d get that if he did it to John Doe Non Cop? He shot a dog. Cops do that every day without censure.
All the time, cops are screwing up and harming innocent people, and never pay. Then for a relatively minor crime, they toss the book at this guy?
Do you wanna know who gets butt-raped in prison? White college kids busted selling narcotics. Middle-aged drunk drivers. Not violent criminal predators like Ivins Rosier. He's the one doing the butt-raping.
The headline lies, as always. The purpose of the headline is to grab your attention and get you to read the article. Most brain-dead readers forget what the headline said, and don’t realize that the headline was just hype and didn’t correspond to the story.
At first I was feeling bad for the kid until I read the article and then saw his picture. I wish he could be sentenced to picking up dog poop for 23 years.
Looks like three significant crimes: breaking and entering, discharging a firearm and animal cruelty, plus an intent to commit burglary or whatever his reason was for breaking into a residence.
OK.
Every badged and uniformed thug that shoots somebody’s dog during one of their frequent FUBAR raids should also get 23 years in prison.
Fair is fair.
It sounds like some on here aren’t aware that K-9s are the same as human cops - even those retired. So, in essence, this little criminal shot and maimed a police officer. That’s probably why he got the book thrown at him. Plus, the route he’s taking - he’ll just be in and out of the system the rest of his life anyway.
Who enter your home at 3am yelling and screaming - like no gang members do that, disguised as cops ... nope, never happens ...
The sentence does not seem excessive. How many crimes did he commit?
-Burglary
-Animal Cruelty.
-Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Minor.
-Possession (and use) of a Firearm while in commission of a felony.
And then there are the ‘past run-ins’, which I suspect weren’t insignificant. He probably should have gotten more than 23 years, to be honest.
Apparently Ivins has made some bad decisions.
Especially about which house to rob.
The officer should have euthanized the dog immediately upon finding it. It was cruel to medically tinker with it for five days.
The punk should also be euthanized, before society spends another nickel on it.
Armed burglary and firing a gun in the commission of a crime -- I would have been OK with him getting 23 years just for that, forget the dog. I would have been even happier if the perp had been shot dead in the act.
Actually, that was not true, and was the primary disagreement in the case.
In Florida, apparently they treat active police dogs as police. But not retired dogs.
The perp was already on probation and had an ankle bracelet, which they used to track him to the house. They questioned him, and falsely told him he’d get murder for killing the dog. He then confessed to shooting the dog.
His confession got him convicted. Apparently, other than the tracking bracelet, they found no other evidence linking him to the crimes.
The lawyer hoped the jury would be disgusted by the police lying in interrogation, but as we all know, police are allowed to lie to get confessions. That is why you should always have a lawyer.
Because the headline is so sensational, NONE of the articles I could find on this actually gave the breakout of the mandatory sentences for each of the crimes.
But I bet that cruelty to animals by firearm is worth 10 years — the pet people have done a fantastic job getting huge sentences for animal cruelty onto the books.
I’m betting most of the sentence was for using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
I’m glad he got such a sentence, but it won’t stand...
I’m sure we will read of him getting out in two or three years.
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Oh, it will stand. In Florida we have 10 - 20 - life.
1) Producing a firearm during the commission of certain felonies mandates at least a 10 years.
2) Firing one mandates at least a 20 years.
3 Shooting someone mandates a minimum sentence of 25 years to life.
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