Posted on 12/14/2009 8:16:15 AM PST by GOPRaleigh
Judge rules 'life' inmates should be released
Posted: 26 minutes ago Updated: 15 minutes ago
RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Beverly Perdue says she is "furious" over a Superior Court judge's ruling that two prison inmates sentenced to life in prison should be released.
Judge Ripley Rand on Monday ruled in the cases of convicted murderers Alford Jones and Faye Brown, who were sentenced in the 1970s under an old law that defined a life sentence as 80 years.
www.wral.com/news/local/story/6611093/
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Have they served 80 years yet??
There is a loophole in NC law that was recently exposed. According to the law the inmates could reduce their time SIGNIFICANTLY by behaving. This reduced their sentences by quite a bit.
No, in real time they have not served 80 years. By NC law they have. Welcome to the NC political machine. Oh, before anyone sides with Dem Gov Beverly Perdue she has hired a convicted killer to serve in the Gov’s mansion.
The prisoners should be executed for the murders. This is foolishness to keep them in prison and even dumber to let them out.
I agree!!!
The implication being that old outdated laws are to be ignored? Wouldn't older laws that have been in force longer be more tried and true than the newer ones which conflict?
ENOUGH of this crap. POINTS for good behavior? NO! No more points, no more parole. Life means LIFE. You get out when you DIE. 80 year sentence, you serve 80 years not one day less unless you die. What is so hard about this?
Gotta release all prisoners in America and clear their records completely, so they can vote for obama,and join his
civilian army to take all freedom fighters to fema camps.
For the folks not familiar with NC politics: Judge Rand is the son of Senator Tony Rand, probably one of the five or six most powerful individuals in the cabal that controls NC. He is currently in deep doo-doo for insider trading. I believe that is just the beginning of what’s in store for him. He resigned his senate seat recently. A few years ago, then-govenor Mike Easley named Tony Rand’s son as a judge that could hear any case, civil or criminal, in any area of the state...go anywhare, do anything. Easley is now the focus of a federal grand jury for his activities while in office.
Aw, what's your problem with people serving life instead of being put to death? They won't get back out on the street anyway.
I can see some of the reasoning behind that. To my way of thinking, if a person has been nailed for committing the murder, then they need to be put to death.
Why should the public pay the amount it does today to house murderers across the nation.
In California we have something between 600 and 700 people on death row. Figure the cost of that each year at something like $40,000 a whack.
I still don’t like Perdue, but she’s the proverbial stopped clock on this issue. She fought hard to keep several other violent offenders in jail.
You are correct. Liberals lie. I have always thought that if they ever got rid of the death penalty completely; that would mean that they would then begin on getting rid of life without parole. Because, well, that’s just inhumane.
Suggest the state take the properties abutting the judge’s home and convert them to homes for these released lifers.
Yeah. Works for me (all except the taking of the abutting properties but can’t think of any other way to do it).
Absolutely! I agree, no doubt about it.
Much as I hate it, I can’t really fault the judge in this case. The ruling is in accordance with the law. It’s the law that’s stupid in this particular instance.
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