I believe this sucker was offered 10 years for a guilty plea. But that meant his family would have to return the money they had grifted. So they convinced him to take his chances at the trial. Well, 33 years for him, his family keeps the money, and now he has no cash to spend on an appeal. This is all broken on so many levels.
Broken but, truly, not unexpected.
I read the GiveSendGo policy is to allow another fundraiser if the convicted appeals the sentence......which he has, so apparently the grift will continue.
Great ain’t it?
That kid should have taken a plea deal week one. He’d only have 9 years to go.
“I believe this sucker was offered 10 years for a guilty plea.”
If this is true, whoever advised him to turn this down, should be imprisoned along with him. The evidence of his guilt is overwhelming.