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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (4007)	2/4/2001 4:02:23 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

CB - worldnetdaily.com "Sentences Without Finality Judges Can Cut Terms for Whatever Reason -- or No Reason Teresa Baker, shown visiting her son John's grave in Leonardtown, heard on her answering machine that the man who shot him six times in the back would be released early. (Sarah L. Voisin - The Washington Post) E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version Subscribe to The Post By Lori Montgomery and Daniel LeDuc Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, February 4, 2001; Page A01 Judgment day for Christopher Kelly unfolded according to plan. Kelly had pleaded guilty to shooting Willie Calloway in a fight over money. On sentencing day, the dead man's family settled into the courtroom benches, hungry for revenge. They heard the prosecutor deliver a solemn monologue about helping "this family heal." The judge responded by sentencing Kelly to five years in prison, then ordered the bailiff to take him away in handcuffs. The Calloways went home satisfied: Kelly would do time behind bars. But in Maryland, some judgments are never final. And on this particular April morning in 1995, the sentencing hearing at the Prince George's County Courthouse was an event staged to placate the grieving family. A month earlier -- in an agreement that the judge ordered sealed from public scrutiny -- the prosecutor and defense attorney stipulated that Kelly would receive a five-year prison term on sentencing day, but they agreed that he would be brought back to the courtroom within 60 days so that the judge could "reconsider" that sentence. Oblivious to the deal, the Calloway family was absent in May when Kelly returned to Judge Darlene G. Perry's courtroom. She changed his sentence to probation, and he walked out a free man...." Regards, Don