[Vision2020] Deary Teens Sentenced

[Wayne Price]

Sunil,

I hate to disagree with you, but.  This "scared" 14 year old boy had  
no moral problems with opening fire with a rifle on vehicles driving  
up and down a highway. Is he scared because of what he admittedly did  
or because he has to spend 30 days in the jug?  And if Juvenile  
probation didn't describe them as very violent, what would very  
violent be if opening fire with a rifle on traffic randomly isn't very  
violent?  Would they have had to actually kill someone?  IF opening  
fire on at least nine vehicles isn't very violent, would shooting ten?  
Fifteen?

And I totally agree with you that the readers on the list are "not  
fully knowledgeable".  Why aren't we fully knowledgeable?  WHO is it  
that we elect is supposed to inform us?
The public officials can't say "You don't know all the facts in this  
case" and then refuse to inform the public what those facts are! The  
electorate shouldn't have to beg for information!

Not too recently this country invaded Iraq after being told by the  
federal government, "You don't know all the facts in this case". And  
we now know after bankrupting this country
that the reasons for that  war was totally bogus and the federal  
government flat out LIED.

Well, now we have the same line being fed to us by the local elected  
government in regards to the local criminal justice situation....  
Where does it stop?




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On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:

> Janesta,
>
> With all due respect,  the judge had access not only to the police  
> reports in the case but also the report prepared by the juvenile  
> probation office.  That latter investigates the incident, the  
> juvenile's prior history, his family, mental, physical, and  
> substance abuse history. It provides a better look at the juvenile  
> than anyone here has had. I'll wager it didn't describe either of  
> them as 'very violent.'
>
> Safety of the community is almost always the first thing a judge  
> looks at. "Disrespect to the citizens of Latah County," whatever  
> that means, is not on the list of sentencing goals, and a good thing  
> too. To me that looks more like an invitation to letting the mob  
> decide than justice.
>
> As someone who's represented clients in front of him for almost a  
> decade, and occasionally prosecuted them in front of him before  
> that, I can say that 'Bleeding heart' are two words not used in the  
> same sentence as 'Judge Calhoun.'
>
> A right to be upset, Tom? Maybe thirty days is nothing to you. I  
> daresay it's a little different to a scared 14 year-old boy. Am I  
> implying you're not fully knowledgeable, I would hope it's more  
> explicit than that. You're not. You know you're not, or at least you  
> ought to know it.
>
> Poor Bill Thompson; asks to send the boys to juvie prison and yet  
> gets ripped here.
>
> Sunil
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:11:13 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Deary Teens Sentenced
> From: janesta at gmail.com
> To: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>
> With all due respect, Sunil. This punishment sets a terrible example  
> to the next teen who takes it upon themselves to turn Highway 8 into  
> their own personal video game.
>
> The judge showed disrespect to the citizens of Latah County, and no  
> regard for our safety with this sentence. For shame.
>
> Janesta
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Clearly the two of you know all there is to know about the boys and  
> the case, more than the judge who dealt with them.
>
> Sunil
>
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