Posted on 05/10/2007 8:40:59 AM PDT by flutters
AKRON, Ohio (AP) A judge cried as the family of a dead taxicab driver asked that his killer spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole, but the judge refused, saying state law required her to impose less than the maximum.
Summit County Common Pleas Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer cried Wednesday while listening to statements by relatives of the victim, Warren J. Miller, 37, of Akron. He was shot in the back of his head in his taxicab by Darnail Carlisle, 18, of Cleveland, on the day after Thanksgiving.
The judge said the defendant's difficult childhood meant she was required by law to give him life with a chance at parole in 36 years.
Carlisle's lawyers highlighted social-services reports that said he had bounced between foster homes and had been physically and sexually abused as a child.
Miller's mother, Gayle, was unmoved. There are people who have had harder lives and didn't kill no one, she said after the sentencing.
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Stop encouraging me.
He did what?
There is always trans-gender surgery.
Something tells me that this cretin’s “chance of parole” in 36 years will be DENIED!!!
I guess his childhood is going to get less difficult when he is in prison
Miller's mother, Gayle, was unmoved. There are people who have had harder lives and didn't kill no one, she said after the sentencing.
Got to destroy what is normal to create their paradise! The kid should rotten in jail for life and pull out the bones when he has pasted on!
She could still have imposed any sentence permitted by the statute.
That's my take as well. I wonder whether some boneheaded appellate or state supreme court decision in Ohio has "added an asterisk" to the sentencing guidelines.
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