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Former LA inmate to get $2.8 million in jail beating lawsuit
AP via CoCoTimes ^
| 12/20/6
Posted on 12/20/2006 12:42:59 PM PST by SmithL
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Your tax dollars at work!
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:43:01 PM PST
by
SmithL
The charges were later dropped because of the seriousness of Beas' injuries, according to court records.The next best thing to actually being innocent.
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:43:42 PM PST
by
SmithL
(Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
To: SmithL
Bob reporting for his 2.8 million dollar beating, do your damndest.
To: SmithL
If we would just give child molesters the death penalty we could avoid all this unpleasantness.
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:47:00 PM PST
by
lovecraft
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: SmithL
We import them, then get molested by them. Pay to jail them, then make them RICH.
Is this historically precidented?
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:49:16 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: word_warrior_bob
Stand in line Bob - people have been threatening to do that to me for years and for 2.8M just let me take my glasses off first....
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:49:17 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: lovecraft
If we would just give child molesters the death penalty we could avoid all this unpleasantness.
He hadn't been convicted of any crime. Did you read the article?
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:52:31 PM PST
by
aNYCguy
To: lovecraft
You'd be well advised to NEVER show any physical affection to any child ever lest you be similarly accused. Calling for the death penalty for a man who simply patted a child on the bottom is idiotic.
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posted on
12/20/2006 12:55:52 PM PST
by
gjbevil
To: aNYCguy
He hadn't been convicted of any crime. Did you read the article? Wonder why he was in jail? If this is an innocent man, he deserves the money.
HAVING SAID THAT..Child molesters should not get special treatment in jail, special rooms, whatever. I am glad to see the criminal population is still administering justice to child molesters that the PC judges will not.
To: aNYCguy
He hadn't been convicted of any crime. Did you read the article? I am aways amazed at the number of FReepers who jump to conclusions and want someone hanged for an alleged offense.
To: Last Laugh
I am glad to see the criminal population is still administering justice to child molesters that the PC judges will not.
As a conservative, I believe in the rule of law. You're free to cheer for mob rule, of course, but don't expect sympathy when the mob doesn't see things your way.
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posted on
12/20/2006 1:08:30 PM PST
by
aNYCguy
To: aNYCguy
A former inmate who was severely beaten after other inmates learned he was an accused child molester The former inmate description made me think this was his second offense. Sheesh, never thought there would be so many people coming to the defense of an accused child molester. The charges have been dropped and he's now 2.8 million richer. There, I'm sure justice was served.
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posted on
12/20/2006 1:09:31 PM PST
by
lovecraft
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: Last Laugh
All are guaranteed protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Inmates should be forced into closely supervised labor during the day and locked in a little sleeping box at night. Allowing the "dorm style" prisons to be built is clearly unconstitutional because the state cannot protect inmates from violence in such conditions.
They want to have their cake and eat it too.
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posted on
12/20/2006 1:21:33 PM PST
by
SENTINEL
(USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
To: SmithL
The moral of this story is don't molest children. The sup's were wrong on this one.
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posted on
12/20/2006 1:22:21 PM PST
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: SENTINEL
If more child molesters just mysteriously turned up dead before sentencing this wouldn't be such a problem.
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posted on
12/20/2006 1:23:39 PM PST
by
SENTINEL
(USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
To: aNYCguy
As a conservative, I believe in the rule of law. You're free to cheer for mob rule, of course, but don't expect sympathy when the mob doesn't see things your way. Because prisoners beat up a known child molester (maybe not in this case), does not mean I cheer for "mob rule".
Prison is not MEANT to be a resort. If someone ruins the life of a child, a few beatings in prison is nothing compared to the death sentence he/she should receive if not for PC judges!
To: Last Laugh
It should be noted that this was an *accused* molester
not a *convicted* one.
You who support ad hoc "justice" had never ever be numbered
among the accused lest you also be so treated..
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posted on
12/20/2006 1:39:58 PM PST
by
rahbert
To: SmithL
on the floor of his dormitory dormitory? maybe this was all a college prank, a bit of hazing?
To: SmithL
Hey, California! It's a good thing you have a state income tax. You can just ratchet it right up there to cover this.
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posted on
12/20/2006 2:47:21 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
To: SmithL
$2.8M is a lot of money- it is more money than I will pay as taxes for my entire life. Jail is not a safe place. Assaults and rape happens every day. That doesn't make it all right. But there seems little legal precedent for this judgment.
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