An Alexandria Louisiana Town Talk article states:
"JENA -- More than 2½ years after six black teenagers were charged with beating a white fellow student at Jena High School, criminal charges against the remaining five defendants were resolved Friday.
In a plea agreement that had been approved by both sides ahead of time, the defendants -- Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis and Theodore Shaw -- pleaded "no contest" each to a charge of simple battery, a misdemeanor."
In other words, we won. I think that's the specific charge I stated in past postings that they should have been charged with; not attempted murder with up to 100 years attached; and not calling a tennis shoe a deadly weapon to promulgate such a charge.
Again, as I said with the Michael Bell deal a year and a half ago, District Attorney Reed Walters agreeing to this charge proves he couldn't prove and didn't believe his previous abusive charges; for if he did, there's is no way he could agree to a charge that carries only a maximum of 6 months in prison. To agree to such minimal charges for what was truly attempted murder would be dereliction of duty at the least.
Truth in sentencing and charging is all we ever wanted; and we've gotten something like that.
I may have more commentary in the near future.
The full Town Talk article
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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The sentence was very light. I will give you that attempted murder was excessive, but a seven day sentence suspended is tantamount to no sentence at all. Especially in light of the national adulation given these young gangsters, all for beating a white kid. Sorry, it can't be justified.
They're not gangsters; your comment can't be justified.
And some of them spent months in jail. They don't get that back.
And there was little to no national adulation; that's just your b.s. There was outrage over ridiculous false charges being thrown on top of a situation that could have been quailed early on if the white power structure hadn't given passes to whites committing crimes, race based crimes at that; against Blacks.
No white folks spent a day in jail for any of their crimes, much less months.
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