Man gets life in prison for impregnating, photographing teenage girl

Waco Tribune ^ | July 01, 2006 | Tommy Witherspoon

[kjo]

Soon, people like this will be a protected "victim group" recognized by the ACLU and DNC. I'm not kidding. Homosexuals who want the right to have underage boys have found ACLU protection in court.

What's this country coming to?

[Desron13]

They should have sentenced him to a messy surgical procedure with a rusty butter knife.

[IamConservative]

Seems someone could have loaned them a rope, they obviously don't have one.

[hodaka]

They should send this guy to the chair.

[Knitebane]

The jury of five men and seven women deliberated about 90 minutes Friday morning before convicting the lifetime criminal of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 11 counts of possession of child pornography.

Ok, what I want to know is this:

What did the jury do for the last 85 minutes?

[null and void]

What did the jury do for the last 85 minutes?

Dunno, but I think a magnum of champagne might have been involved...

[MinuteGal]

The pervert "mother", the pervert rapist and his pervert defense mouthpiece will eventually learn the true meaning of "low-level" criminal after they each shuffle off this mortal coil.

Leni

[sionnsar]

Sad part is the guy could actually get out after 68 years.

Hardly likely to live so long...

[Lazamataz]

Witt’s attorney, Russ Hunt Sr., asked jurors to find him not guilty because, despite Witt’s admissions that he had sex with the girl in four states and five major cities, prosecutors failed to prove he had sex with the girl in McLennan County.

Oh, well, SURE, then! I mean, the crime's doin' this stuff in McLennan County! Everywhere else's fair game!

Moron.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"The attorney may be defending a malicious criminal, but by doing so he is also defending our constitution."

The lawyer probably gets stinking drunk each night so that he forgets his shame at trying to keep a predatory animal from going away for life, but, yes, he is defending the Constitution.

Michael Frazier

[Salamander]

Here's something just for him, then;

[One side says "MAN" but I bet the other side says "That hurt!"]....;]

[reg45]

No charges under the Mann Act? Interstate transportation of an underage girl for sexual purposes?

I thought that the Kennedy's had that law repealed.

[Caipirabob]

LOL! I should hope so!

[El Gato]

Sad part is the guy could actually get out after 68 years.

He's not going to last that long, he's unlikely to last the length of what would have been his "natural life". In a Texas prison, convicted of sexual abuse of a child? They'll have to keep him in solitary for his own protection, and even then he'll be in the graveset danger, not from the guards, from his fellow inmates. It's just too bad he can't serve his state sentence first, and then when and if he gets out on parole, he could begin to serve the 30 year federal time.

Couldn't happen to a better cannidate, IMHO. His big mistate was getting caught in Waco, McLennan County, Texas. (Which is the home of Baylor University, a Baptist affiliated school, IOW, the bible belt of Texas.) I don't imagine the jury was particularly friendly.

[El Gato]

Unless the sentences are end to end.

The state sentence are all concurrent, that is not end to end. HOWEVER, they don't start until the 30 year federal time is complete. The man will die in prison... one way or another.

[LA Woman3]

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/06/30/06302006wacwitttrial.html

[El Gato]

He shouldn't get death for rape and porn. That is a slippery slope. Karl Chessman got the gas chamber for rape and it so appalled the voters of California

Their choice. It would not bother the average Texas vote one wit. Whether it's rape of a child, an old woman, or just some lady that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Although a certain form of corporal punishment might be more appropriate. Sort of "Abuse it and Lost it".

[El Gato]

What did the jury do for the last 85 minutes?

They were determining the appropriate (and allowable) punishment.

The jury recommended that Witt be sentenced to life for the sexual assault, 60 years in prison for each of eight counts of child pornography that showed the girl’s breasts and 80 years in prison for each of three photos that showed the girl’s genitals.

Still the trial was not lengthy. Or at least the jury deliberation.

[El Gato]

I thought felonies gave LONG term sentences.

By definition a felony is a crime punishable by one or more years in prison. Although that doesn't mean you actually have to get or serve a year, just that the maximum penalty for the crime is at least 1 year.

[El Gato]

Mullet wearing bastard. He should get death just for that.

At least an enhanced sentence. Special circumstances and all that. (says he whose cousins used to or still do, wear the ugly things).