Posted on 11/24/2020 1:39:09 PM PST by devane617
An appeals court affirmed a 55-year prison term Tuesday for a member of the MS-13 gang who organized the killings of four teenagers in a Long Island park when he was 15 — but it also expressed regret that the end of parole for federal prisoners means he won’t have incentive to reform.
A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the prosecution of Josue Portillo, now 19, is a “classic illustration of the unfortunate consequences” of a decision by Congress that eliminated parole for federal prisoners sentenced in or after 1987.
The ruling, written by Judge Jon O. Newman, said the intent of Congress to end disparities in sentences and to send a message to the public that prisoners will serve nearly all of their sentences was not achieved, in part because the public gets a muddled message since most state courts still offer parole.
The 2nd Circuit said parole might motivate Portillo to obey prison rules, obtain education, participate in rehabilitative programs and mature to a point where he could rejoin society.
What he really needs is a firm date with the hangman.
TFB, judge.
Who cares if he reforms or not.
Shoulda been executed. But 55 YEARS is ok...he will be 74...what a complete waste. My compassion meter hasn’t moved.
Why not just run him through a wood chipper.
“had committed the massacre while undergoing counseling to avoid gang involvement”
If only we defunded the police and dedicated the money to counselling.
So tax payers will fork out $1,705,000.00 ($31k/yr) to drastically extent the life expectancy of this piece of filth when less than a dollars worth of electricity would resolve the problem.
SPJNK.
[The 2nd Circuit said parole might motivate Portillo to obey prison rules, obtain education, participate in rehabilitative programs and mature to a point where he could rejoin society.]
Uh no. NEVER.
He can call for a minister to share the Gospel with him. He must NEVER, EVER rejoin society.
End of story.
Why’s he worried?
The next Democrat president will pardon him.
EVERY “halfway house” to be used by early-released violent criminals should be REQUIRED to be located next door to the judge who issued the ruling
Let’s put them in his home!
Even if you left him out on the street odds are some other gangbanger would take him out. MS-13 members aren't known for their long life expectancies.
Yes to quote John Wayne, “a fair trial and a fine hangin’.”
Two black teenagers murdered a woman, not that far from me, several years ago. For drugs and her car.
The idiots in charge will probably let them loose on society again. Where they will do similar.
Two black teenagers murdered a woman, not that far from me, several years ago. For drugs and her car.
The idiots in charge will probably let them loose on society again. Where they will do similar.
Out in time to go on social security.
Unfortunately, his last 8 quarters of income won’t look so good.
Let’s hope the guy’s fellow inmates from opposing gangs will resolve the problem for society.
I can’t stand these fvcker leftist jurists who live comfortably away from the fires they cavalierly start
Some of them are strangely blind to the dangers, too.
Corrina Mehiel
“Just a few days after she was photographed with Nancy Pelosi grinning in approval, friends found Mehiel tied up, stabbed, tortured, and ultimately dead at the hands of El Hadji Alpha Madiou Toure, a black man arrested driving her car and using her debit card.
He said he didn’t do it.”
“Her belief in black victimization came, she said, at an early age when her mother read to her the book that would change her life: It Takes a Village, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
By the way, he raped her too, before she died.
“Man Found Guilty in 2017 Rape, Murder of Artist Corrina Mehiel in NE DC Apartment”
David Ruenzel
“Some liberals, most of which are ego-soaked, look for ways to support their self-perceived importance so they champion imaginary causes for that purpose,” Newburn said. “They are adult-children who feel free to construct fantasies about their greatness. Their narcissism in part functions to blind them to inconvenient realities. So to compensate, they idealize the targets of their misdirected and pathological ‘caring.’”
[So tax payers will fork out $1,705,000.00 ($31k/yr) to drastically extent the life expectancy of this piece of filth when less than a dollars worth of electricity would resolve the problem.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_v._Simmons#Opinion_of_the_Court
So killing babies is legal, but killing murderers is not. A conservative columnist once said we’re slouching towards Gomorrah. I’m finding it increasingly hard to disagree.
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