Judge admits he made mistake in sentencing Misty Roberts, who faced up to 17 years in prison after conviction
The former Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts has completed the 90-day jail sentence she received for raping a 16-year-old boy while still in elected office and been released from custody, according to state corrections records.
The 44-year-old finished her jail term on what was the Labor Day holiday in the US, one week after the judge who presided over her case rejected a request from prosecutors to force her to serve a harsher sentence.
Judge Kent Savoie nonetheless acknowledged in court he was mistaken to have based Roberts’ sentence off of a list of more than 30 cases that were resolved through plea deals, unlike her prosecution, which culminated in a jury trial and guilty verdict, the Louisiana news station KPLC reported.
“I asked someone to get me a list of cases similar,” Savoie was quoted as saying on 31 August. “I made an assumption, and that assumption was wrong.
how about we create a state where the monopoly on violence is run by people who do not make fucking mistakes.
People who do not make mistakes do not exist.
then i reckon the state should not have a monopoly on violence then huh? ;)
A free for all on violence is too Mad Max for me.
who said anything about a free for all?
Oligopoly? You seem excited to get violence out of the state and into the hands of each person
i “violence” as much as i want. which is to say none. like most people, i imagine. a atate will violence for profit and control, always, and make mistakes all along the way. you seem to be ok with this, and the way the boot tastes?