Akron judge cries at killer's sentencing, gives less than maximum

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | May 10, 2007

[jdm]

R0TFLMA0

[martin_fierro]

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Stop encouraging me.

[eyedigress]

He did what?

[El Gran Salseron]

"Women suck, and lots of times I’m ashamed to be one."

There is always trans-gender surgery.

[LetsRok]

Something tells me that this cretin’s “chance of parole” in 36 years will be DENIED!!!

[AppyPappy]

I guess his childhood is going to get less difficult when he is in prison

[fortunecookie]

Something the judge failed to 'consider' (which to her apparently means follow):

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.

[thebaron512]

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!

[Charles Martel]

No, it means that she was required by law to give his childhood consideration in her sentencing.

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.