Would have been six-hundred and twenty candy bars, when I was a wee lad.
And not the little puny ones either.
Posted on 04/04/2016 3:57:54 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
The price of candy has shot way up for Jacobia Grimes.
A career shoplifter, Grimes faces a possible 20 years to life in prison after he allegedly stuffed $31 worth of candy bars into his pockets [...] on a December afternoon.
Grimes has five prior theft convictions, making him a “quad” offender under the state’s habitual-offender law, and facing 20 years to life behind bars.
In 2010, [Orleans Parish District Attorney] Cannizzaro’s office secured a conviction against Grimes as a double offender, sending him away on a four-year prison stint. The latest charge upped the stakes further.
Grimes appeared Thursday for arrangement before Criminal District Court Judge Franz Zibilich, pleading not guilty. “Isn’t this a little over the top?” Zibilich wondered aloud over the threat of a “multiple bill,” an approach that leaves little discretion to a judge. “It’s not even funny,” the judge said. “Twenty years to life for a Snickers bar, or two or three or four.”
A month before the candy theft, the NOPD had put out a missing-person bulletin for Grimes. It said he’d last been seen three days earlier leaving his girlfriend’s house on a bicycle and “possibly heading to a store located at Gen. Taylor and South Claiborne Avenue,” three blocks from the Dollar General where he is accused of taking the candy. The bulletin said Grimes “suffers from a medical condition and is in need of his medication.”
Grimes, who also faces a charge of drug paraphernalia possession, is free on $5,000 bond, court records show.
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So it’s not the candy bars, it’s all the crimes before hand that he got caught, and didn’t learn from.
That’s racist!
I wonder why they don’t give detail on his other past crimes? Were those all candy bars and gum? It mentions the others were all under $500. That could mean that he stole some much more expensive items on multiple occasions and to me that is no different than walking into someone’s house and taking stuff.
Nagin only rec. 10 years. He had 20 counts against him. Quad x 5 = 20...
It could be a good reason for the life imprisonment.
Cut his hand off or put a THIEF tat on his FACE.
Look through the article at the link: he stole some socks and trousers the previous time.
There was a time you couldn’t get $31 worth of candy bars into a backpack, let alone your pockets.
He was given a second chance, and a third, to learn from his mistakes. Actions have consequences. Stupidity, a price.
The first is from the sharia law, the second - from the Russian XVII-XVIII century's law (plus nose cut off and exile to Siberia).
Reading the details of this fool junkie’s career, the thought came to me that Arlo Guthrie has the outline for another 18 min talking song, as “The Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” has become dated as to subject matter.
“...With eight by ten glossy color photographs with circles and arrows...”and security cam videos...could become a movement...
Would have been six-hundred and twenty candy bars, when I was a wee lad.
And not the little puny ones either.
He knew he was facing this, but stoke anyway. Unbelievable the compulsion to steal would be so great. Noe he’s going to cost taxpayers a fortune. Just cut off his right hand instead.
Likely needed new trousers with a bigger waist size due to all the candy bars.
New headline:
“Career Criminal willing to bet 20 Years+ of his Life to Steal $31 of Candy”
- Would he consider your life any more valuable if he were robbing you?
INDIA. They had a caste system. I learned that in 54 or 55 in grade school
I tried to see if the Internet showed the old punishment in India. It seems they are covering up what those in India did to so called outcasts/undesirables. We were taught they did some terrible things to thieves and such. Of course in the 50’s nothing was said about rape, sex, etc.
...and yet Shrillary remains free...
And HOW many drug pushers did Obama recently commute sentences for, and set free....?
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