Posted on 03/25/2015 4:35:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lamar Coulter
QUINCY -- A Chicago man who prosecutors said was playing the "knockout game" was sentenced to probation Monday during a hearing in Adams County Circuit Court.
Lamar Coulter, 21, could have received up to four years in prison on a felony aggravated battery charge, but was sentenced to 24 months probation and 270 days in jail by Judge William Mays. This is Coulter's first felony offense. Mays ordered Coulter to spend 180 days in the Adams County Jail. With day-for-day good time credit, Coulter could be out in 90 days.
Coulter was arrested on June 27 after two separate incidents were reported to Quincy police. A 37-year-old Quincy man said he was attacked in the Seventh and Elm area around 6 p.m. Two hours later, two 18-year-old Quincy men were walking near 18th and Chestnut when they said they were both punched by one man who ran and fled the scene in a vehicle.
Coulter and Calvin L. Snell, 19, were arrested on charges of robbery. All three men who were attacked were released from Blessing Hospital following treatment.
First Assistant State's Attorney Gary Farha asked Mays to sentence Coulter to the maximum allowed under the plea agreement, a four-year prison term. Farha said Coulter and Snell were playing the "knockout game," an act where people try to knock out unsuspecting people.
"This certainly had all the earmarks of it," Farha said.
Coulter apologized for his actions during the hearing.
Farha said Coulter had no connections to Quincy. He said Coulter was visiting the area with Snell, who was planning to attend Quincy University. Farha said Snell was expelled from school. Snell was also scheduled to be sentenced on Monday, but was in the hospital. His sentencing was rescheduled for April 8.
Coulter was ordered to pay $14,796 in restitution to the victims. His bond of $3,000, which he posted on July 1, was applied to the restitution.
Probation.
Liberals have told us the knockout game is a.myth.
Mays ordered Coulter to spend 180 days in the Adams County Jail.
Probation is on top of that. He could be out in 90 days though.
This is terror. It is meant to send a message far beyond just the victim.
Jeez, in MY books, the “knockout game” is attempted murder (ignorance of the potential adverse/fatal consequences of the knockout game is not relevant).
So, for the protected perp class of Obama Sons, conviction of the knockout variant of attempted murder gets the perp, at most, 270 days in local jail.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Imho, this is an attempt at murder.
‘get a rope’
or is that racist?
Next time he decides to play, maybe he picks the wrong target and gets the booby prize.
Yeah, probation. That’ll learn him!
The charge should be attempted murder.
Probation? Well that will show him.
How many times will he get knocked out in 180 days?
The Over Under. A whole bunch.
Why do they refer to him as “man”. Anybody who does this is not fit to be called “man”, or even “human”. Though I guess they had to use some nondescript term because he was too old for teen. Perhaps psuedo-simian
http://www.wilx.com/news/featured/headlines/Dangerous-Game-—Point-em-Out-Knock-em-Out-231443411.html
Sometimes it turns out better.
Sometimes it turns out worse.
Either way, it’s attempted murder. The thugs, if they survive, deserve decades in prison.
‘get a rope’
or is that racist?
I say no...there is a Pace Picante sauce commercial that says it and it is a bunch of white guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSxnieYctVM
I am sorry but there should be a little jail time because it is assault and the guy was treating the assault as if it was a game and the only way he will take it seriously if he is in jail for two to three months. give him jail and then probation
maybe they should ship him to Mississippi and have him go walk around in the woods.
if whites played the knockout game on blacks walking alone, well, you know how this would be treated and reported.
The “plea agreement” is a corruption of the judicial system, taking “justice” out of the equation.
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