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TV Theft Offender To Be Released After 35 Years
All Headline News ^ | May 19, 2005 | Niladri Sekhar Nath

Posted on 05/20/2005 7:44:58 AM PDT by bulldozer

May 19, 2005 8:08 a.m. EST

Niladri Sekhar Nath - All Headline News Staff Reporter

RALEIGH, N.C. (AHN) - A man who has spent 35 years in jail for stealing a $140 television set will be released in a few weeks.

However, the 64-year-old man Junior Allen will have to work, comply with all laws and check in periodically with a parole officer for five years after his release.

Allen stated Wednesday that he will go back to his home in Georgia and never come back. He will also meet his brother, sister and other relatives in Georgetown, Ga.

(Excerpt) Read more at allheadlinenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: juniorallen; theft
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This should be a lesson to those who want to steal a TV set.
1 posted on 05/20/2005 7:44:58 AM PDT by bulldozer
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To: bulldozer; All
Misleading headline, as anyone might have guessed:

Allen was punished with life-imprisonment for second-degree burglary in 1970 for sneaking into an unlocked house near Benson and stealing a 19-inch black-and-white television.

At that time, he was a 30-year-old migrant farm worker from Georgia with a criminal history of burglaries and a violent assault.

2 posted on 05/20/2005 7:48:43 AM PDT by dighton
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To: bulldozer
Before there are too many tears shed for the perp, consider these snips from the article:
Allen was punished with life-imprisonment for second-degree burglary in 1970 for sneaking into an unlocked house near Benson and stealing a 19-inch black-and-white television.

At that time, he was a 30-year-old migrant farm worker from Georgia with a criminal history of burglaries and a violent assault.
So he wasn't in jail for 35 years because of a theft; it was because he was a habitual criminal. Good thing no one was home when the violent offender stole the TV or there might be a murder charge involved. Boo freaking hoo.
3 posted on 05/20/2005 7:50:18 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
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To: bulldozer
In my youth I knew this guy who got LIFE after he was caught CARRING a TV out of Sears. He was already a three time loser. No one, including his boyhood friend, my uncle, ever heard from him again.

This was in the early 50's.

TV's were huge in those days I have no idea how he was able to carry one but that is the story.

4 posted on 05/20/2005 7:51:24 AM PDT by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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To: bulldozer
As Sammy Davis Jr. sang:

"Don't do the crime if you ain't Robert Blake."

5 posted on 05/20/2005 7:51:56 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: bulldozer

If this is the same case posted earlier this week, the thief not only stole the TV, but beat up an 80 year old woman during the robbery.


6 posted on 05/20/2005 7:54:56 AM PDT by mbynack
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To: NonValueAdded
"The law related to his offense has been amended and the harshest penalty anyone can now receive for second-degree burglary is three years,"

Courts in the US are crap shoots. Murders and rapists get parole, while burglars get life.
7 posted on 05/20/2005 7:55:38 AM PDT by monday
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To: bulldozer

Meanwhile OJ is playing golf.


8 posted on 05/20/2005 7:56:13 AM PDT by EdHallick
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To: monday

All felons should be executed, one strike and you're DEAD!


9 posted on 05/20/2005 7:59:25 AM PDT by conservativewasp (Support John Kerry......... Ho Chi Minh would. Damn! Now I need a new tagline.)
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To: mbynack
Before posting I did a search of the title.
Nothing came up. I don't like to repost a previous one.
Maybe you can provide a link to it.

10 posted on 05/20/2005 8:00:18 AM PDT by bulldozer
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To: mbynack

"If this is the same case posted earlier this week,"

Provide a link.


11 posted on 05/20/2005 8:02:15 AM PDT by monday
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To: bulldozer

Particularly those "...with a criminal history of burglaries and a violent assault."


12 posted on 05/20/2005 8:03:00 AM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: bulldozer

Just think... all the shows he wanted to watch have been long gone...


13 posted on 05/20/2005 8:07:40 AM PDT by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: conservativewasp

Oh really? The death penalty for ALL felons? So you would execute someone who wrote a bad check for $200?


14 posted on 05/20/2005 8:08:33 AM PDT by AggieCPA (Howdy, Ags!)
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To: monday
Courts in the US are crap shoots. Murders and rapists get parole, while burglars

In this particular case I think he was sentenced for being a habitual criminal.

I do agree with you that U.S. Courts are a crap shoot tho. I used to watch Court TV and thought some of the verdicts were astounding.

I would hate to be an innocent person in an American Court. On the other hand, if I were guilty, I would love it.

15 posted on 05/20/2005 8:11:42 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: AggieCPA

Howdy!


16 posted on 05/20/2005 8:14:26 AM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: monday

Yeah, what yarddog said. I hope in your comment to me that you aren't advocating relaxing penalties for habitual offenders just because some murders and rapists get through the system. I'm sure most of us share your outrage about those who skate through. But it's is better to tighten up punishment than to relax it for everyone because some slip through.


17 posted on 05/20/2005 8:25:39 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
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To: andyk

Howdy!


18 posted on 05/20/2005 8:38:29 AM PDT by AggieCPA (Howdy, Ags!)
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To: bulldozer; monday
I did a search and couldn't find it on FR. Here's a link to the original.

http://www.nbc17.com/news/4507666/detail.html

Sometimes the voices in my head tell me things that aren't really true.

19 posted on 05/20/2005 8:38:33 AM PDT by mbynack
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To: conservativewasp
Good morning.
"All felons should be executed, one strike and you're DEAD!"

All mean spirited, simpleminded people should be chained to a post on the courthouse lawn and flogged.

No offense intended, conservative wasp, I'm just being sarcastic like you were.

Michael Frazier
20 posted on 05/20/2005 8:43:00 AM PDT by brazzaville (No surrender,no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
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