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$23,500 to secure one apartment?In the first three months of 2004, sentences for fourteen murder convictions averaged 13 years and 52 days."Murderers don't get that"
http://www.baltimorepolice.org/bpdne...fullnews&id=25
Black Man Gets 30 Years In Prison For Writing Bad Checks
Created: 9/27/2007 2:40:04 PM
Last updated: 9/27/2007 2:40:33 PM
BALTIMORE (AP) -- The state attorney general's civil rights unit is investigating a 30-year sentence given to a black man convicted of writing bad checks who had no prior convictions.
Carl O. Snowden, the attorney general's director for civil rights, said Wednesday he is investigating the sentencing of Andrew M. Fisher in response to a complaint filed by the Baltimore County branch of the NAACP.Advertisement
Fisher, 24, was convicted in August of two counts of writing $23,500 in bad checks for an electronic security system for the apartment he shared with his mother.
Baltimore County Circuit Judge Patrick Cavanaugh sentenced Fisher to two consecutive 15-year prison terms and ordered him to repay A-1 Security Systems, in a case first reported in The (Baltimore) Examiner.
Pat Ferguson, president of the local NAACP chapter, called the sentence "blatant discrimination." She also compared the situation to that of the Jena 6 case in Louisiana in which six black teens were arrested after an attack on a white student. Critics accused officials of prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites.
An assistant said it is the judge's policy not to comment on his cases.
Cavanaugh, who is white, offered to release Fisher if he paid $23,000 in res ution, according to a motion filed by Fisher's attorney Alvin Alston. Alston asked the judge to correct the "illegal sentence" against Fisher, saying that Maryland's highest court has held that "imprisonment for a lack of financial resources is illegal."
Nancy Fish, the owner of A-1 Security Systems, said she did not object to the sentence.
"Murderers don't get that," Fish said. "But the judge saw the type of personality that this guy was. It's not like he was sick or on drugs. He knew exactly what he was doing."
Fisher does have an arrest record, including several assault charges, but no convictions.
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$23,500 to secure one apartment?In the first three months of 2004, sentences for fourteen murder convictions averaged 13 years and 52 days."Murderers don't get that"
http://www.baltimorepolice.org/bpdne...fullnews&id=25
Check Kiting While Black.
Moral of the story: don't write bad checks; if you owe money to someone just kill him.
who takes a check from a a brutha for 24,000 dollars!?
betta have his nba/nfl id, or it's hit the bricks fool!
Actually, I think the moral of the story here is that you should always, ALWAYS make sure to include "black man" in the story's le, so as to maximize the outrage potential.
In all seriousness though, I really don't think it would take 30 years to learn to not write bad checks. I mean come on, that is really harsh. He's going to learn his lesson in probably the first week (or first three days if Big Bubba gets a hold of him), and then spend the next 29 years and 358 days plotting his revenge against the bas judge who put him the tank. So when he gets out, he is going to kill him. And then he'll just get 10 years behind bars for that. Smart move, Your Honor. Next time just give him community service and some counseling.
Even I thought that was overdoing it just a bitActually, I think the moral of the story here is that you should always, ALWAYS make sure to include "black man" in the story's le, so as to maximize the outrage potential.
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