Justice at its finest hour

[a Mad Cow]

Just for the skeptics:

A homeless man robbed a Louisiana bank and took a $100 bill. After feeling remorseful, he surrendered to police the next day. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
Roy Brown, 54, robbed the Capital One bank in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 2007. He approached the teller with one of his hands under his jacket and told her that it was a robbery.
The teller handed Brown three stacks of bill but he only took a single $100 bill and returned the remaining money back to her. He said that he was homeless and hungry and left the bank.
The next day he surrendered to the police voluntarily and told them that his mother didn’t raise him that way.
Brown told the police he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry.
In Caddo District Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for first degree robbery.


Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265402#ixzz14twOrTnV

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A former executive of insurance heavyweight American International Group Inc. was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday in a fraud case that authorities say cost shareholders more than $500 million.

Christian Milton declined to comment during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn. He was ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons on March 25, and his lawyers said they were preparing an appeal.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202427788088

 

[DarthJeff]

Didn't I just read that that cop that murdered somebody on the San Francisco subway got 2 years in prison?
Hmmm...

How about the wealth manager who isn't facing charges for his hit and run on a bicyclist, because prosecutors thought he might lose his job over felony charges?
Yup.

 

[PraXis]

Get rid of both, problem solved.

 

[Feeling Supersonic]

I'd never trust an AIG executive.

 

[180gROC]

If there's no common sense coming from the legislative or the executive, why would I expect it from the judicial?

 

[DarthJeff]

Good to be white in this country.

 

[Feeling Supersonic]

Good to be white in this country.

 

[Oranjeaap]

We know all to well about 'justice' in the Netherlands.
I guy i know had to spend 1 whole year in prison because he knocked a guy to the ground in a bar fight. But 'certain minorities' they go free after robbing the juweler, raping our blonde girls and steal from our houses. Its not fair.
But thats the way it goes today, and ive accepted it.

 

[Oranjeaap]

Good to be white in this country.

Over here, its the other way around.

 

[colchar]

Just for the skeptics:

A homeless man robbed a Louisiana bank and took a $100 bill. After feeling remorseful, he surrendered to police the next day. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
Roy Brown, 54, robbed the Capital One bank in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 2007. He approached the teller with one of his hands under his jacket and told her that it was a robbery.
The teller handed Brown three stacks of bill but he only took a single $100 bill and returned the remaining money back to her. He said that he was homeless and hungry and left the bank.
The next day he surrendered to the police voluntarily and told them that his mother didn’t raise him that way.
Brown told the police he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry.
In Caddo District Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for first degree robbery.


Read more: Homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100

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A former executive of insurance heavyweight American International Group Inc. was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday in a fraud case that authorities say cost shareholders more than $500 million.

Christian Milton declined to comment during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn. He was ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons on March 25, and his lawyers said they were preparing an appeal.

Law.com - AIG Executive Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Fraud

And I'll bet my bottom dollar that the homeless guy goes into a normal prison while the executive goes to a minimum security facility.

 

[ext1jdh]

But the homeless guy now has three meals a day, a roof over his head, and all the sex he could never want!