Posted on 05/09/2025 4:43:23 PM PDT by Morgana
The mom of a postal worker stabbed to death in a Manhattan deli slammed prosecutors Wednesday for striking a deal to let her son’s ruthless killer take a plea deal for just 15 years behind bars.
“She’s going to get out early and kill again,” Ada Rice told The Post after Jaia Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the Jan. 2 slaying of USPS postman Roy Hodge at Joe’s Deli Grocery in Harlem.
The plea deal comes less than three months after prosecutors indicted Cruz on a second-degree murder charge for the broad-daylight killing, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 25 years to life.
But Hodge’s mom said she was left stunned when Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Clerkin told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro that Cruz “expresses remorse and has asked to accept responsibility for [Hodge’s] death” — despite prosecutors’ admitting Hodge’s family opposed the offer.
Rice said she was left “very upset” with the judicial system in part because she claims the Manhattan DA’s office had told her that they believed in the strength of the case, especially a video from inside the bodega which allegedly shows Cruz spar with Hodge after he cut her in line at the deli counter.
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This is an update..btw that is NOT a woman that is a man and I sure hope he is sent to a men's prison.
I was wondering the same thing! It is because that thing is a tranny he gets a manslaughter charge?
Our justice system is broken. This is disgusting. They demand chaos.
RE: “She’s going to get out early and kill again.”
As Richard Pryor said to Gene Wilder who finally has realized the justice system has totally failed them in Stir Crazy:
“Welcome to the real world. And not a moment too soon.”
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Line in the true crime movie Frozen Ground about the serial abductor/rapist/torturer/killer Robert Hansen who tortured and killed at least 17 young women:
“He was in prison but the Supreme Court ruled he had to be let go again. Then he killed another young girl within the first two weeks.”
It (Jaia Cruz, 24), should have gotten the Death Penalty, Executed Publicly within 60 days of the Murder.
As Richard Pryor said to Gene Wilder who finally has realized the justice system has totally failed them in Stir Crazy:
And as Richard Pryor said, “Thank God we got penitentiaries!”
She is a he.
Nic Cage and John Cusack were excellent, great movie
they gave J6 protestors more time!
I said, “Why’d you kill everybody in the house???”
“They was home.”
Probably woke crap.
Can’t over represent certain victim groups for the crimes they commit regardless of whether it’s just or not.
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