Exec gets 6 months in attack; Woman was injured in Mandeville bar

Times-Picayune ^ | 19 March 08 | Benjamin Alexander-Bloch

[LSUfan]

The co-owner and president of SpeeDee Oil Change was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and two years of home incarceration for aggravated second-degree battery after a February trial that included an allegation that Mandeville's mayor had used undue influence in helping his well-heeled acquaintance.

[LSUfan]

This LOSER should get 60 YEARS, not 6 MONTHS.

Eddie Price is more and more looking like a corrupt slimeball who has no business being in elected office. He needs to go back to working as a cashier in a convenience store, or what ever he did before he became mayor of Mandeville and the prime beneficiary of the Toys for Tots campaign. Read this article. A lousy piece of whale dung stomps on a woman's head in a bar for sissies and causes permanent damage to her and gets 6 MONTHS...Oh and he has to attend anger management classes and do 500 hours of community service and pay a $10,000 fine.

That woman could be your sister or your daughter...

I WILL REMEMBER THIS PANTY-WEARING JUDGE WHEN ELECTION TIME COMES....

[decimon]

I WILL REMEMBER THIS PANTY-WEARING JUDGE WHEN ELECTION TIME COMES....

I read this differently than you. It reads like the charges were reduced before the case reached court. If that's so then the judge would have to follow suit.

[decimon]

Let me amend my reply. The judge is likely just a boy in the boy’s club but it doesn’t sound like ant fix began with him.

[LSUfan]

Don’t think so. From the article:

“Garcia cited Copp’s medical issues — he has had heart surgeries that require him to use a strong blood thinner that can make him susceptible to injury — as reasons for the shorter jail sentence and the subsequent home incarceration.

He said, “Copp is a contributing member to our community and a good father” but that it is his actions’ “effects on the victim and her family that weighs so heavily on me.”

[Dick Vomer]

well if she has any male relatives, then the fact that the perp is on blood thinners should come in handy when playing tag with baseball bats.

[LSUfan]

If the guy is on blood thinners that make him subject to injury, you’d think he wouldn’t be so quick to start barroom brawls.

But I guess when your target is a woman, even he isn’t in danger.

I don’t go to that sissy bar, but if I had been in there and seen him stomp on that woman’s head with the heel of his cowboy boot, he would have left horizontal.

[LSUfan]

I totally agree.

[rock_lobsta]

Copp maintained Tuesday that he threw Rome, 42, off her bar stool that night out of self-defense, because she had aggressively berated and wielded a lit cigarette at him.

You know, second-hand smoke is a deadly weapon... [/s]

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would go to Spee-Dee anyway - it's nothing but an overpriced rip-off place. Hope he winds up going out of business, and may Ms. Rome get a generous judgment in civil court.