Too bad he made it out alive.
Too bad he made it out alive.
Now if the courts would only apply the same sentencing to dog killing cops.
I bet PETA is happy. Just think of the implications of this if animals (and I know this is a police dog who should be protection above other animals) who are killed are this protected. How many times have we seen people get much lessor sentences for killing people? I think this will be overturned. If not hunters may be in trouble someday.
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.
I’m okay with this too. Burglary? I don’t need to hear much more than that, but hurting the dog? Yep. I wouldn’t care if they executed him.
They mention his earlier “run-ins” but since he would have been a juvenile at the time, they don’t give any details - but I bet he had already done some pretty bad stuff. And if he broke into the trooper’s house, armed and with two other thugs, he wasn’t just some innocent “boy” who somehow happened to shoot some elderly dog.
the dog was retired at five years old... cops got one hell of a unionWonderful news, think of him getting to playing “drop the soap” as the catcher for the next 20 years AND he is off the streets.
Good.
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.
“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?
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.
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.
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.
Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody's emotional reactions and his efforts to save the life of his dog reveal the emotional damage, the pain and suffering, caused and the punishment should be its equal and severe enough to be a deterrent.
Moreover, if a homeowner kills the person who shot or is threatening to shoot his/her dog, that homeowner is NOT guilty of a crime, but has instead done society a favor.
May God then forgive the homeowner and ease his/her pain.
But his grandmama says he was such a good boy.