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Fresno administrative law judge's wife sentenced in bat attack (Life in prison,'3 strikes',Yur out!)
Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 2/21/08 | AP

Posted on 02/21/2008 12:09:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge

FRESNO

The estranged wife of a former Fresno administrative-law judge has been sentenced to life in prison for attacking another woman with an aluminum baseball bat.

Forty-six-year-old Robyn Sotelo of Sacramento was sentenced Wednesday for the 2006 attack on Marian Wells. Prosecutors say Sotelo broke into Wells' Fresno home and attacked her because she was infuriated over a relationship Wells was having with her husband, Louis Sotelo.

At the time, Louis Sotelo was an administrative-law judge for the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board in Fresno.

Robyn Sotelo will be eligible for probation in seven years. Wells survived the attack.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: administrative; california; fresno; judge; sentenced
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1 posted on 02/21/2008 12:09:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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probably not a soccer mom.


2 posted on 02/21/2008 12:11:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge
A life sentence yet she's eligible for parole in 7 years?

Quite the disconnect there.

L

3 posted on 02/21/2008 12:14:08 PM PST by Lurker (Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
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To: NormsRevenge
I have to admit that when I read the headline I was outraged that someone was sent to prison for attacking a bat.

“Fresno administrative law judge’s wife sentenced in bat attack”

What a proper headline would read:

Fresno administrative law judge’s wife sentenced for attack with (a) bat.
Of course, thats just me and I may be a bit batty about the whole deal...

4 posted on 02/21/2008 12:14:21 PM PST by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Lurker

A life sentence yet she’s eligible for parole in 7 years?

agreed. That is kind of weird.

It gives her some incentive at least,, tho unless she addresses her anger management issue, she may be there for awhile.


5 posted on 02/21/2008 12:16:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge; Lurker

That’s not an unusual time to be eligible for parole with a life sentence. Similar laws in lots of states. I ain’t saying it’s right, just saying that’s the way it is. Gotta be LWOP to avoid that.


6 posted on 02/21/2008 12:19:00 PM PST by squidly
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To: Lurker

life senteneces are can be considered at 25 years.


7 posted on 02/21/2008 12:20:03 PM PST by Bruinator (It's the Media.............Stupid)
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To: NormsRevenge

No baseball Mom!


8 posted on 02/21/2008 12:21:23 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: NormsRevenge

I think it’s odd these jilted wives always blame the other woman.....instead of their husbands. Do they believe hubby won’t continue to have the problem of infidelity if they get rid of “her”? How nutz is that?


9 posted on 02/21/2008 12:24:07 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: K-oneTexas

Dada dada, dada dada, dada dada, dada dada...Bat-mom!


10 posted on 02/21/2008 12:24:50 PM PST by LucyJo
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To: NormsRevenge

Was she wearing diapers?


11 posted on 02/21/2008 12:26:27 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: NormsRevenge
At least she won't be molesting other 17 year old young men in gym class for quite some time.

Oh. Sorry... wrong thread.

NOT Guilty!

12 posted on 02/21/2008 12:27:00 PM PST by willgolfforfood
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To: squidly

That’s true,, laws do vary from state to state, if the victim had died, I could support the LWOP, she’ll be there for awhile as is..


13 posted on 02/21/2008 12:27:45 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: LucyJo
Lobe it, that's a good one.

Just remember Soccer Moms are never asked "Mom, Can You Teach Me How to Hit?"
14 posted on 02/21/2008 12:36:11 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: LucyJo
Love it, that's a good one.

Just remember Soccer Moms are never asked "Mom, Can You Teach Me How to Hit?"
15 posted on 02/21/2008 12:36:26 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: NormsRevenge
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned"

Act 3, Scene 2 ends with these words:

ZARA. Thou shalt die.

OSM. I thank you.

ZARA. Thou ly'st; for now I know for whom thou'dst live.

OSM. Then you may know for whom I'd die.

ZARA. Hell! Hell! Yet I'll be calm- Dark and unknown Betrayer! But now the Dawn begins, and the slow Hand Of Fate is stretch'd to draw the Veil, and leave Thee bare, the naked Mark of Publick View.

OSM. You may be still deceiv'd; 'tis in my Pow'r.

ZARA. Ha! Who waits there? -

Enter PEREZ. - As you'll answer it, take heed This Slave commit no Violence upon Himself. I've been deceiv'd. The Publick Safety Requires he should be more confin'd; and none, No not the Princes self, permitted to Confer with him. I'll quit you to the King. Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent The base Injustice thou hast done my Love: Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress, And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd; Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd

16 posted on 02/21/2008 12:41:43 PM PST by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: Lurker
A life sentence yet she's eligible for parole in 7 years?

Quite the disconnect there.

California dictionary!

17 posted on 02/21/2008 12:43:32 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: NormsRevenge
The words, "administrative law judge," make my skin crawl.

They combine all three supposedly separate branches of government into one.

18 posted on 02/21/2008 1:31:55 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: bill1952

Why should she be excused for attacking a defenseless bat?

Seven years in jail for attenpted murder seems pretty light. When she gets out, I would put her on indefinite parole, to be confined to one county.


19 posted on 02/21/2008 1:40:23 PM PST by docbnj
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To: LaineyDee

I believe that any husband who would do that is not worth fighting over. Quite frankly, the other woman may have done her a favour by revealing what a scum her husband was.


20 posted on 02/21/2008 1:42:46 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one recipe at a time http://www.youtube.com/Tamar1973)
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