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Posted: 3 months ago by Nicky666:
Apart from the fact that one might consider the court ruling disproportionate in the first place (10-20 years for selling 200 dollar worth of heroine at 19 years old), she did escape, so she should serve her sentence now in my opinion.
I do feel for her husband and children.
I don't think her husband is correct when he calls her a person of the highest integrity.
that's all, I'm done.
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Posted: 3 months ago by hypersapien:
« Nicky666 :
I don't think her husband is correct when he calls her a person of the highest integrity.
And naturally, you know more about what kind of person she is than the man she's lived with for the past two decades.
All it means is that she wasn't a person of the highest integrity when she was 19.
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Posted: 3 months ago by Fizz71:
To me the biggest statement in the story was this one: "This raises [...] the issue of redemption, and how do we achieve that?"
Do you think jail is place for punishment or rehabilitation? We do call them "Correctional Facilities" after all.
I think she "corrected herself" quite well so what would prison do for her except ruin her life for some stupid sh*t she did when she was 19. Not to mention my taxes would be paying for her meaningless prison stay.
I would smack her with some major community service which, from the way the article described her, she would probably do with no complaints. This way she's paying SOME debt to society. IMO her crime was almost "victimless" so who is really going to benefit from her going to jail now.
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Posted: 3 months ago by jafo777:
She must be a dangerous criminal mastermind after making her great escape...by walking away...
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Posted: 3 months ago by MeMe:
I gotta agree with Fizz to a certain extent. Maybe give her a year or two but the rest should be community service. People are stupid when they're young and while you're supposedly going to do that s**t in high school, come on, college is the land of experimentation and kids that age, even if not in college, are going to join in. She was dumb, she corrected herself.
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Posted: 3 months ago by drzima:
She did escape..and I wonder how this would play out if it were a Man who walked away. However, 19..heroin.. 10-20 years? That's a bit harsh. I agree with the above.. However, I think she'll get a Paris Hilton or Linsey Lohan sentence.
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Posted: 3 months ago by Fizz71:
« drzima : I wonder how this would play out if it were a Man who walked away. Personally..to me...gender has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's about redemption and turning your life around.
When I was in college I did some things that could have gotten me arrested. Nothing serious, but still...stupid sh*t that could have given me a record. If I WAS arrested, I wonder if I would still have been able to get my first real job that gave me un-escorted access to the control room of a nuclear facility? The job that launched my career and got me to where I am. Which isn't anything rich and fancy, but still a decent life with a wife, a kid and a nice brick home in a good neighborhood.
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Posted: 3 months ago by pocksucket:
That community has to ask itself some very serious questions about their morality and consistency.
To maintain integrity, they should now be willing to throw open their doors to any offender who wants to repent, to make something of their lives and not do crimes any more.
To maintain integrity, they can't just restrict this to the rich white women.
To maintain integrity, they must accept that now they have turned their back on the judicial system of their country, their judicial system now has the right, should it so choose, to turn its back on them.
Or they could sweep it all under the carpet, ignore the implications of their actions and get on with their lives if they're comfortable with that.
Whichever works out best for them, really. Whichever they're happier with.
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Posted: 3 months ago by teresag:
"To maintain integrity, they can't just restrict this to the rich white women."
I could not agree more. I keep picturing her as a working class black man; would the pleas for clemency be so loud?
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Posted: 3 months ago by cb__:
I also think the sentence for her drug conviction was too harsh..but I could see the bind this now puts authorities in. No matter how exemplary a person has lived their life subsequent to an escape from prison, the law is still the law unless and until it is changed and, in her case, made retroactive.
Personally, I think the anonymous tipster should have left well enough alone.
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Posted: 3 months ago by gnikgnok:
photos that showed she was acquainted with the “higher-ups” in the Saginaw drug world, Marlan said.
I grew up in Saginaw, MI in the 70s and 80s... never knew we had a drug world! Wow.
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Posted: 3 months ago by bingo:
Why should this even be an issue?
She did the crime
She was convicted.
She escaped from prison.
She also doesn't seem like even now that she is contrite about it at all, saying that she only did it once and all. while the police say they bought from her twice, there are pictures of her with bigger dealers and they believe she was a bigger player (tho they don't say how they came to that).
In my opinion there is no gray, it's black and white, she has a sentence to finish out, plus what is usually tacked on for prison escape.
Period.
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