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Court: Schwarzenegger should free aging inmate (87 y.o.)
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^
| 10/18/06
| AP
Posted on 10/18/2006 9:48:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/18/2006 9:52:10 AM PDT
by
Homer1
To: NormsRevenge
"But the Los Angeles-based 2nd District Court of Appeal said that Lee should be freed from prison because the state had not shown he still was a danger to society."
He's in prison because he killed someone, not because he's a danger to society. Leave him in there.
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posted on
10/18/2006 9:53:47 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: NormsRevenge
Around here this is not a question anymore. Virginia simply abolished parole.
You do the crime; you do the time.
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posted on
10/18/2006 9:56:14 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: NormsRevenge
This is why we need the death penalty, so that these creeps won't be released when the leftists get back into power.
To: NormsRevenge
Somebody's not understanding the meaning of "life in prison."
To: NormsRevenge
well, if he's truly sorry and his victim comes back to life, then we can set him free.
until then, throw away the key.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:06:45 AM PDT
by
Zeppelin
(You've been Zarqed !)
To: NormsRevenge
"We find no evidence that Lee is likely to commit another crime or that his release would unreasonably endanger the public," This is irrelevant. He is a convicted murderer. He should serve his sentence until it's end.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:08:08 AM PDT
by
Mrs Ivan
(English, and damned proud of it.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lacks legal grounds to deny parole Well, well. The Governor lacks legal grounds to make up his own mind on who deserves parole? Laughable.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:11:19 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: NormsRevenge
Isn't it actually better for him to stay in prison? If he is so sick and infirm, how is he going to get medical treatment if he's on his own and destitute? The article says he would "probably" be deported to China, but does anyone really believe that? Wouldn't it be better to just keep him in prison where the state is already paying for his keep, rather than let him out and then have him take away health care from others in an already-strained medical system?
-PJ
To: NormsRevenge
But the Los Angeles-based 2nd District Court of Appeal said that Lee should be freed from prison because the state had not shown he still was a danger to society. That's not the point. He's in prison as punishment for his crime, not just because he may be a danger to society.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:20:29 AM PDT
by
BlessedBeGod
(Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Like california jury will ever hand out the death penalty here in california. Even if they do, it' likely wont survive appeal.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:24:59 AM PDT
by
SDGOP
To: NormsRevenge
"We find no evidence that Lee is likely to commit another crime or that his release would unreasonably endanger the public," said Justice Laurence Rubin in the 3-0 decision. What kind of evidence would they have while he's in prison? They wouldn't know for sure until they let him loose and he tries to kill someone else.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:29:47 AM PDT
by
DejaJude
(Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
To: NormsRevenge
its a shame the wife was involved....and that is a crime
BUT
I can remember a few times being screwed in deals... I had thoughts, and if thoughts could kill, they would have.
Go back 150 years to the opening of the west....and Mr. X reneges on his deal to give Mr. Y money for the property that was taken and being used by Mr. X. In a town lets say like Deadwood, Mr Y would have had the right and the duty to fill him with lead.
Now I aint saying its right, and I already said that the innocent bystander part of the deal was a crime....But there is no honesty in business dealings any more and the handshake means nothing.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:36:51 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: NormsRevenge
Heh, I must just have a different take on this than all of you. As I see it, the dead woman and her husband were thieves who fleeced a 70 year old man out of his restauraunt and retirement. This isn't a guy who planned on relying on uncle sam to take care of him for the rest of his life, he built a business, gained enough equity to retire on, and then tried to sell it. Sadly for him, his business was purchased by unscrupulous people who took his work and then refused to pay for it, leaving him penniless.
Hell, I'd have shot them myself. Let the old guy go, he's done enough time.
To: NormsRevenge
Courts that think they know better than the Governor/legislature are the real threat to society.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:40:03 AM PDT
by
vamoose
To: Arthalion
Let the old guy go, he's done enough time.
If the victims were your parents, I suspect you might see it differently.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:55:41 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: mkjessup
If the victims were your parents, I suspect you might see it differently.
If my parents were cold hearted enough to screw a 70 year old man out of his life's business and the retirement he'd worked hard for, you'd be surprised at how little my views would change. Would I grieve for them? Sure. But I still wouldn't blame the old guy. These people were creeps who preyed on an old man, and one of them paid the ultimate price for it. I feel about as much sympathy for them as I do for car thieves and burglars who get shot by property owners.
Still, the guy committed a crime, and it was proper that he be sent to jail for it. Given the nature of the crime the victim perpetrated against HIM, however, I think we need to be lenient with this one. Let him go.
To: Arthalion
I'll tell you what's scary to me.....I think exactly like you on this matter and that is scary!
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posted on
10/18/2006 11:18:11 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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