What would your just action be? This man never hid where he was. He never tried to keep from going to prison. The court just overlooked him. So he waited. And waited.
Now that they have discovered the oversight, he was arrested. But if he had served all of that term, he would be free now anyway.
So tell me, would justice be served if he now spent 13 years in prison? If so, please define what you believe to be the purpose of prison and what you believe justice consists of.
23 yrs old is not a kid. He was a grown man when he committed a violent armed robbery.
I am extremely disturbed that this man has been turned into a hero. So he turned his life around. Good for him and society, but that's what he should have been doing instead of armed robberies.
I would need far more information than is provided by the msm. That they judiciously state that he hadn't been convicted of a serious crime prior to the robbery puts me on alert.
Why didn't he contact authorities? I can understand why, I probably wouldn't either. If he did in fact ask his lawyer and the lawyer told him to keep quiet then the lawyer is partly at fault for his predicament.
If, in fact, this story is completely true as reported, which I doubt there should still be punishment for the crime.
Prison is not rehabilitation, it is punishment.
Community service, house arrest, weekends in jail.
Again, this man committed a violent criminal act and punishment is appropriate. He is not a hero and is not being oppressdd by da man.
See post # 20. The purpose of prison is punishment. I would need far more info than what has been given so far by the msm. I thought Freepers would know by now that the left does not report the true story or the whole story.