Jolie Rouge
08-31-2011, 09:29 AM
Posts| The Lookout – 20 hrs ago
A 15-year-old from Syracuse, Anthony Stewart, was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in a juvenile detention facility by Judge William Walsh of Onandaga County for a robbery in which the teenager took a mere 7 cents.
Walsh said he issued the harsh sentence because Stewart declined to plead guilty, choosing to fight the charges. A jury found him guilty of first degree robbery.
The victim had identified Stewart and a friend as the perpetrators, Walsh said, "and yet you still denied it," the Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse reported. "Well, that cost you," Walsh added.
The other teenager, Skyler Ninham, 16, pleaded guilty in July and was sentenced to 1 to 4 years in prison. Stewart and Ninham carried BB guns that looked like real pistols when they knocked a 73-year old man to the ground--Stewart punching him in the face--and took all the cash he had on him, prosecutors said. That amounted to 7 cents.
Stewart's lawyer, Laurin Haddad, had pleaded with Walsh to treat her client as a youthful offender, so that a felony conviction wouldn't remain on his permanent record. "For 7 cents, now you're making someone a felon for the rest of his life," Haddad told the Post-Standard.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/teen-gets-branded-felon-life-robbing-man-7-200811947.html
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It is not about the money he took. It is about the act of armed robbery and assault. It doesn't matter if the man had 7 cents or 7 thousand dollars. The act was the same. Anyone who thinks the punishment was too harsh I wish you your father or grandfather are robbed the same way. It is easy to judge something without having to walk in the shoes of those you judge.
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I'd love to shake the judges' hand, and commend him on a job well done.
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I dont see why everyone is up in arms about the fact the he ONLY stole 7 cents. He still attacked an old man at "gun" point. I've been robbed at gun point and it was the scariest thing ever. This little punk deserves every bit off punishment. I do believe that instead of jail time, people this young should be sent to military school and then spend the remainder of their sentence in the military. Jail just teaches people to be better criminals. But he does need to be punished ( and by punished i mean learn his lesson) no matter if it was 7 cent or 7,000 dollars.
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Who cares if it was only .07. The fact remains is that this piece of garbage chose to steal from an elderly man.
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Wow. So this had to turn into a race issue right? I'm African American myself and I will NOT defend this fool. However it not because he is of a certain race but because right is right and wrong is wrong. I dont care what race you are. People make me sick always making everything into a topic about race. It was a bad decision and the judge choose to make an example of the idiot flat out cant that just be the end of the #$%$ story.
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"For 7 cents, now you're making someone a felon for the rest of his life," Haddad told the Post-Standard."
Typical fricking idiot lawyer that missed the point ' Gee, I thought the felon moniker was for 'first degree robbery', carrying 'BB guns that looked like real pistols', and 'they knocked a 73-year old man to the ground--Stewart punching him in the face--and took all the cash he had on him'. Who cares how much money they got - that was immaterial to the crime they committed. Hell if it wasn't this title, I'm sure it would be something else 'murderer'? for the rest of his life - glad they got this little tick-turd off the streets as quickly as they did. What if they had caused the man to have a heart attack ? The "teen" chose to be a criminal and commit a crime - for 7 cents.
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The Judge is not making him a felon...he did that when he decided to beat and rob someone. It's time to get tough when they are young, maybe they won't keep it up and they will learn your choices have consequences.
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It is just right to punish the boy since the degree of what he did is really significant. Why? robbing 1 dollar from a millionaire is not that worst but robbing 7 cent from a 73 yrs. old guy. It is just wrong the morality of the youth this days are getting worse.
And the worse of all the boy denies it. There was a witness but still denied it, if that boy grow having a poor sense of moral character a criminal mind might be possibly born. That is why we as a citizen must teach or stop kids from doing something wrong as early as possible, so that, we could at least make the this corrupted world corrupt slowly since we couldn't stop it, as a fact.
A 15-year-old from Syracuse, Anthony Stewart, was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in a juvenile detention facility by Judge William Walsh of Onandaga County for a robbery in which the teenager took a mere 7 cents.
Walsh said he issued the harsh sentence because Stewart declined to plead guilty, choosing to fight the charges. A jury found him guilty of first degree robbery.
The victim had identified Stewart and a friend as the perpetrators, Walsh said, "and yet you still denied it," the Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse reported. "Well, that cost you," Walsh added.
The other teenager, Skyler Ninham, 16, pleaded guilty in July and was sentenced to 1 to 4 years in prison. Stewart and Ninham carried BB guns that looked like real pistols when they knocked a 73-year old man to the ground--Stewart punching him in the face--and took all the cash he had on him, prosecutors said. That amounted to 7 cents.
Stewart's lawyer, Laurin Haddad, had pleaded with Walsh to treat her client as a youthful offender, so that a felony conviction wouldn't remain on his permanent record. "For 7 cents, now you're making someone a felon for the rest of his life," Haddad told the Post-Standard.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/teen-gets-branded-felon-life-robbing-man-7-200811947.html
comments
It is not about the money he took. It is about the act of armed robbery and assault. It doesn't matter if the man had 7 cents or 7 thousand dollars. The act was the same. Anyone who thinks the punishment was too harsh I wish you your father or grandfather are robbed the same way. It is easy to judge something without having to walk in the shoes of those you judge.
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I'd love to shake the judges' hand, and commend him on a job well done.
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I dont see why everyone is up in arms about the fact the he ONLY stole 7 cents. He still attacked an old man at "gun" point. I've been robbed at gun point and it was the scariest thing ever. This little punk deserves every bit off punishment. I do believe that instead of jail time, people this young should be sent to military school and then spend the remainder of their sentence in the military. Jail just teaches people to be better criminals. But he does need to be punished ( and by punished i mean learn his lesson) no matter if it was 7 cent or 7,000 dollars.
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Who cares if it was only .07. The fact remains is that this piece of garbage chose to steal from an elderly man.
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Wow. So this had to turn into a race issue right? I'm African American myself and I will NOT defend this fool. However it not because he is of a certain race but because right is right and wrong is wrong. I dont care what race you are. People make me sick always making everything into a topic about race. It was a bad decision and the judge choose to make an example of the idiot flat out cant that just be the end of the #$%$ story.
~~~
"For 7 cents, now you're making someone a felon for the rest of his life," Haddad told the Post-Standard."
Typical fricking idiot lawyer that missed the point ' Gee, I thought the felon moniker was for 'first degree robbery', carrying 'BB guns that looked like real pistols', and 'they knocked a 73-year old man to the ground--Stewart punching him in the face--and took all the cash he had on him'. Who cares how much money they got - that was immaterial to the crime they committed. Hell if it wasn't this title, I'm sure it would be something else 'murderer'? for the rest of his life - glad they got this little tick-turd off the streets as quickly as they did. What if they had caused the man to have a heart attack ? The "teen" chose to be a criminal and commit a crime - for 7 cents.
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The Judge is not making him a felon...he did that when he decided to beat and rob someone. It's time to get tough when they are young, maybe they won't keep it up and they will learn your choices have consequences.
~~~
It is just right to punish the boy since the degree of what he did is really significant. Why? robbing 1 dollar from a millionaire is not that worst but robbing 7 cent from a 73 yrs. old guy. It is just wrong the morality of the youth this days are getting worse.
And the worse of all the boy denies it. There was a witness but still denied it, if that boy grow having a poor sense of moral character a criminal mind might be possibly born. That is why we as a citizen must teach or stop kids from doing something wrong as early as possible, so that, we could at least make the this corrupted world corrupt slowly since we couldn't stop it, as a fact.