sentence is overboard

[jakncoke]

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.


15 years, really? really? Unless he had a bunch of priors but even then it's quite ridiculous

[jcowns]

Yeh i reckon thats way too harsh but look on the bright side.
Atleast he will get free meals in jail?

[LiNuX]

he gave himself up and the judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison? where is the plea bargain? the system is so messed up sometimes.

[jcowns]

he gave himself up and the judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison? where is the plea bargain? the system is so messed up sometimes.

I AGREE! the man gave himself up which is a good thing and he only stole $100 to keep himself alive.

[Riku-Nara]

I'd like to believe that the judge thought that life behind bars would be a better environment for him.

[jakncoke]

that judge would be dam.n wrong then. I've never lived on the streets an had to fend off starvation or hypothermia but freedom can't be measured. Being told what to do all the time just sucks, and 15 years means he'd go to state where clicks/gangs are duking it out and then you got to fend off horny guys named bubba

[Trunks]

I thought it was 100 billion at first. I was like how much did that bank have.... Yea, 15 years does seem like a long time, I thought it always depended on the amount you took.

[jakncoke]

I thought it was 100 billion at first. I was like how much did that bank have.... Yea, 15 years does seem like a long time, I thought it always depended on the amount you took.

Depends on the states laws, also if he had prior crimes then a stiffer sentence will always be handed down in nearly all cases. You ever read the story where dude took like .50 cents in merchandise and got like 32 years because he had a rapsheet a mile long.