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Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro goes for plea deal, life without parole +1,000 years
Hotair ^ | 07/26/2013 | Erika Johnsen

Posted on 07/26/2013 10:46:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/26/2013 10:46:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’ll be out on parole after 400.


2 posted on 07/26/2013 10:47:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why a plea deal here.  Convict, fry or inject, shovel, and shut up.  The guy is guilty.  It's blatantly obvious what he did.  Think of the victims and do the right thing.




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3 posted on 07/26/2013 10:48:53 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Put him in a small, cold dark place and see how he likes it..scum of the earth


4 posted on 07/26/2013 10:52:50 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: cripplecreek

I see “A Very Special Lifetime Original” smarmy chick flick coming out of this. “Taken: The Cleveland Kidnappings”? Anything to keep the lo-info people occupied.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 10:53:02 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I think he will get what he has done.


6 posted on 07/26/2013 10:54:21 AM PDT by Baseballguy (If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Prosecutors would rather go after people they can “Nifong” like the Duke lacrosse team or George Zimmerman.

A known rapist, kidnapper, and murder gets off easy.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 10:54:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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“Why a plea deal here.”

I couldn’t bring myself to read the article; too depraved. But, a plea deal was probably offered because the prosecutor didn’t think he could get a stronger penalty. (I’m speculating.) It might also be that the prosecutor feels he could lose some or all of the evidence on a technicality and the jury might go for a lower sentence.

A lot goes on behind the scenes and even if the newspapers knew about it, their reporting is generally so bad they’d never get it across.


8 posted on 07/26/2013 10:56:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SeekAndFind

Hopefully he will be Dahmerized.


9 posted on 07/26/2013 10:56:25 AM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Lock him up for life in a women’s prison.
It wouldn’t be for long.


10 posted on 07/26/2013 10:57:44 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would have made sure he gets put into general population

‘life’ in prison would be about 6 months, max.


11 posted on 07/26/2013 11:00:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (4 election)
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To: Gen.Blather

I think those are rational thoughts. It does disturbs me that the media can manipulate public opinion to the degree that it does, but why do authorities allow them to do it?

How hard would it be to list what this man did to these women, and demand justice? Certainly today’s women could be made to see this is an instance where a man took every decision a woman could make away from her, times three.

Boy, if a verdict was ever a done deal, this would have to be one IMO.


12 posted on 07/26/2013 11:03:25 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: tet68

his new name would be Ariel Castrated.


13 posted on 07/26/2013 11:04:13 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Another sellout....

Should have gotten the Death Penalty for sure, but, we don't wanna have to argue the "life begins at Conception" issue in the Courts.

Another life-long burden on Taxpayers to fund this incarceration, with cable TV, Internet Access, food, shelter, etc., etc.

We could save Millions for Taxpayers if ALL prisoners on Death Row were executed immediately, free up needed prison space, AND, eliminate Repeat Offenders.

Unfortunately, the bilking of Taxpayers to pay the Lawyers to Argue for 20 years in Courts on useless/baseless Appeals is not gonna happen in YOUR lifetime.....follow the money.

14 posted on 07/26/2013 11:05:00 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Gen.Blather
Eh. It makes sense on a lot of levels. They spare the cost of a trial, which would turns into a sideshow and force the three women, who have been staying out of sight, to go public. Then there's the inevitable appeals of a death sentence, which would cost more public money, since I assume he's not paying for a legal team, and would drag on for years. Then there's the extra cost of maintaining a prisoner in death row for all those years, and the extra cost of transporting them back and forth to court for all those appeals. And then you get to the "win or lose" matter of getting a death penalty in a case concerning the killing of an unborn child, which could be defended any number of ways.

I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve to fed feet-first into an incinerator, but how much money do you want to pay for that satisfaction?

15 posted on 07/26/2013 11:05:08 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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(snippy)”It does disturbs me that the media can manipulate public opinion to the degree that it does, but why do authorities allow them to do it?” Authorities don’t have a press or propaganda machine. They rely on the “press.” The authorities can give the best story possible, but they don’t have an audience and the press does. The first amendment allows the press to present only those bits the press feels are relevant.

(Snippy) “How hard would it be to list what this man did to these women, and demand justice?” We have an adversarial judicial system. Just listing the charges and demanding justice is disturbly similar to The Inqusisition, where the accused was charged but not allowed to defend themselves in an adversarial manner. The founding fathers realized this created a high burden on the state but they wanted a high burden on the state and a lower burden on the accused. The Founders knew this would let some guilty people walk. But they preferred that over having the King’s 100% conviction rate.

(Snippy) “Boy, if a verdict was ever a done deal, this would have to be one IMO.” A lawyer told me that there was no such thing as an open and shut case. He said that no matter how stacked the case was on one side or another that it was always a 50/50 gamble as to how it would turn out. He said the best thing to do was stay out of court. Having said that, I’d have thought the Zimmerman case was open and shut in Zimmerman’s favor. But at least 40% of the people disagreed with me. I conclude the lawyer was right. The DA made a good call here. He also saved probably a million dollars off his budget that he can now use to go after other criminals.


16 posted on 07/26/2013 11:13:17 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, I’d like somebody to explain to me how in the world can someone admit guilt, so he can escape the ultimate penalty...

Under Ohio law, he’s a murderer.

In ohio, is the punishment for murder the death penalty?


17 posted on 07/26/2013 11:14:20 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

“I’m not saying that he doesn’t deserve to fed feet-first into an incinerator, but how much money do you want to pay for that satisfaction?”

Actually, I think Vinnie and Guido would be happy to do it on their day off as a public service. But Vinnie and Guido won’t have access. However, their brother’s in the clink may still administer “justice” alla Jeffrey Dahmer. (A prisoner locked the guards out of a room and left Jeffrey with another prisoner who did the honors.)

BTW, love “Bubba Ho-Tep”...er...the name, that is.


18 posted on 07/26/2013 11:18:11 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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I would give him the “deal” just to bring closure to his victims, not have death penalty appeals drag on endlessly, and not force them through the ordeal of facing him in a Courtroom. It’s a fair cop.


19 posted on 07/26/2013 11:21:58 AM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: WildHighlander57

RE: Under Ohio law, he’s a murderer.

In ohio, is the punishment for murder the death penalty?

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20 posted on 07/26/2013 11:24:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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