Posted on 12/29/2017 4:38:30 PM PST by packrat35
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A legendary airport robbery recounted in the movie "Goodfellas" came back to haunt an 82-year-old mobster on Thursday, when a judge cited evidence of his role in it while sentencing him to eight years in prison for an unrelated road rage arson.
Vincent Asaro, balding and bespectacled, reacted to the sentence with disgust.
"I don't care what happens to me at this point," he grumbled.
He looked at U.S. District Judge Allyne R. Ross, saying: "What you sentenced me to is a death sentence anyway."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
So much for being acquitted.
Surely it can’t be constitutional to sentence a man for crimes of which he was acquitted.
Notice that everyone mentioned in connection with this travesty is a member of the contradictory gender.
Did you read the article? He wasn’t sentenced for the crime he was acquitted of. He was sentenced for a different, more recent, crime.
The problem is the guy has a slam dunk basis to appeal the sentence. Eight years for road rage is excessive.
I'll get the ball rolling.
> Eight years for road rage is excessive. <
Remember, this “road rage” involved setting a car on fire. Eight years for a carefully planned arson seems about right.
Is this the guy who bought the Cadillac or the one who bought his wife a mink?
Yeah but if the Judge was citing it as an aggravating factor in his present sentencing then that’s an error. In fact maybe the Judge was giving the guy an appeal ground.
when a judge cited evidence of his role in it while sentencing him
Mafia
“I thought we talked about this, don’t buy anything big right now! What the bleep’s wrong with you? I got a milion bulls breathing down my neck and this idiot’s gonna get us pinchrd” “Now go home and get your effing shinebox!”
A least for him, the odds are his boyfriend will be much younger.
Vinny is balding huh?......Okay: “Don’t buy wigs that come off at the wrong time! Morrie’s wigs don’t come off”!
You’re a funny guy.
Frankie Five Angels?
I thought all those guys from the Lufthansa heist were dead.
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