He didn't fail to appear. Read the article.
"and calling foul when finally caught doesn't sound responsible to me."
I'm pretty sure that it's people with common sense that are calling foul. Perhaps yours rolled under the desk. Did you check? It should scare you that the evil government clowns have no common sense. I know it scares Cliven Bundy...
and if you know you have a jail sentence, know that they'll eventually catch up with you if you walk away from your punishment.
OK - once again, he didn't walk away from his punishment. Did you read some article written by the evil clown prosecutor for St. Charles County, the one with no common sense?
All I know is that if I am in a similar situation.... I am not going to around reminding the “justice system” I should be in jail for 13 years. No on here is stupid enough to do this.
I would do same as this man did. Get back to work and to my life done out in the open. If the “justice system” forgets about me this is their business, not mine. This is their line of work and they do every day so they should be good at it.
You wrote: He didn't fail to appear. Read the article.
You're correct, I read it wrong.
I wrote: "and calling foul when finally caught doesn't sound responsible to me."
You wrote: I'm pretty sure that it's people with common sense that are calling foul. Perhaps yours rolled under the desk. Did you check? It should scare you that the evil government clowns have no common sense. I know it scares Cliven Bundy...
He was tried, and convicted (unlike Bundy). He appealed his rightful sentence, and his appeal was rebuffed (unlike Bundy). He owes a debt to society - and he has always known it. We don't pay debts because we're forced to. We pay debts because we owe them. Because we want to do the right thing. We do the right thing whether someone is watching or not.
I wrote: and if you know you have a jail sentence, know that they'll eventually catch up with you if you walk away from your punishment.
You wrote: OK - once again, he didn't walk away from his punishment.
He absolutely did know and did walk away. He knew he wasn't where he should be - in prison. He knows because he appealed his sentence repeatedly and the appeals were denied.
Did you read some article written by the evil clown prosecutor for St. Charles County, the one with no common sense?
Why is the prosecutor evil? Did he point a gun at someone's face and demand money?
The article says:
* He got bail and appealed the sentence unsuccessfully several times
You don't appeal "not-guilty". Not "several times". He absolutely knew he was a convicted felon.
* He should have been re-arrested and jailed following his last failed appeal but he never was
I don't know about you, but I do the right thing even when no one is watching. I wouldn't steal even if I knew I wasn't going to be caught. I don't live my life based on the odds of getting caught, as that is surely immoral and wrong. This isn't revolutionary - it's the minimum we're required to do by God.
Right and wrong are not subjective. They are objective. You did the crime, you do the time. You knew you were a convict - you spent years hoping no one would find you. Well, they did.