My Father's Outrageous Prison Sentence!

D'Alessandro's office recommended the sentence in 1994. How did it get to 60 years? First, Edwards was punished as a habitual felony offender, with 30-year sentences running back-to-back. D'Alessandro said his office had a low tolerance for criminals who tried to slide.

"That's probably what happened to him."

The same month Edwards was sentenced, another Fort Myers man was sent away for 20 years after shooting his son-in-law seven times and killing him outside a bar.
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Indeed!
 
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I'm very sorry this has happened to you. Your dad sounds like a wonderful man, unfortunately this society is very cruel and stupid, and so we have laws and courts that are cruel and stupid.

Drug addiction is plainly a medical problem not a criminal one. No one wants to become addicted to drugs, but they do because they do not realize that addiction will be the consequence of their choice to do drugs in the first place.

Anyway, good luck and I hope you can get your dad out sooner rather than later.
 
Odin said:
I'm very sorry this has happened to you. Your dad sounds like a wonderful man, unfortunately this society is very cruel and stupid, and so we have laws and courts that are cruel and stupid.
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I know very few people who are cruel. (stupid, we could toss back and forth.) The blame needs to be placed where it belongs, which is on the cruel, uncaring, profiteers. The stupid are their victims, not their partners.
 
Yes, do put this on reddit, and post back here for us to share.
 
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MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2 said:
I know very few people who are cruel. (stupid, we could toss back and forth.) The blame needs to be placed where it belongs, which is on the cruel, uncaring, profiteers. The stupid are their victims, not their partners.
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I've been wanting to respond to this but haven't had time, but I think what happened on the New York subway platform today is a good example. Poor guy gets pushed onto the platform and is trying to climb out and no one helps him.

People on the whole are not directly cruel but they are indirectly cruel. They will look the other way at cruel things happening especially when it benefits them. Look at the number of pets that are dumped in animal shelters and euthanized. There are a few understandable circumstances in which people can't keep their pet but in the majority of cases it is people who just can't be bothered with their dog or cat anymore and just drop them off at the pound. About 33% of the animals there are euthanized. But as long as they don't have to kill it themselves it doesn't sit on their conscience.

On another note, my own parents and family members who I think are great people are indirectly cruel, in that they advocate many of the drug laws and especially in my dad's case, wars overseas. Of course they don't have to do the killing themselves, or see the lives ruined because mothers and fathers and sons and daughters are thrown in prison for what is in reality a medical problem. People buy diamonds and jewels that come from mines in which children are exploited and physically harmed, people buy shirts and shoes which come from sweatshops. I could go on and on.

I didn't say people are sadistic, but people are incredibly cruel as long as they don't have to inflict the cruelty themselves. Especially if they can get some benefit from it, but turn their head the other way and pretend it doesn't exist. I'm not exempting myself either - I do this as well but at least I recognize that it is wrong.

That's the sad reality, a lot of people nowadays suck, are stupid, and are cruel. Our laws reflect that. But I fundamentally disagree that the stupid are the victims of the cruel, at least in this country they are the benefactors of cruelty. It is people living elsewhere around this planet who have to suffer for the stupidity and cruelty of some Americans, although occasionally an American citizen is himself a victim of it like the poor fellow who was pushed onto the subway platform. My point though is that in a sick society, the institutions of that society will reflect the people it supposedly serves.
 
I didn't say people are sadistic, but people are incredibly cruel as long as they don't have to inflict the cruelty themselves.
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Fed, entertained and exercise petty power over their fellow man.
 
That's insane. Imagine how much Florida tax payers have paid just because someone had $850 worth of cocaine? Hardly seems worth it. Unfortunately this is all too common today. The idiot public has bought into the idea that prosecutors are judges cranking out ridiculous sentences are somehow "tough on crime". I was kicked off a jury in a case that was basically a domestic dispute that the prosecutor had cranked up to "especially aggravated kidnapping and assault" even though there was no proof of any weapon (prosecutor made the argument that even a pen could be a weapon) no physical evidence, and no evidence at all except from the girlfriend, who had gone back to this man after the alleged assault took place but before reporting the "crime". I saw the prosecutor later and asked him how the case came out. He was gleeful in the fact that he'd gotten this young man 40 years. Disgusting.
 
It's a score card for lawyers...

I agree, disgusting!

jmdrake said:
That's insane. Imagine how much Florida tax payers have paid just because someone had $850 worth of cocaine? Hardly seems worth it. Unfortunately this is all too common today. The idiot public has bought into the idea that prosecutors are judges cranking out ridiculous sentences are somehow "tough on crime". I was kicked off a jury in a case that was basically a domestic dispute that the prosecutor had cranked up to "especially aggravated kidnapping and assault" even though there was no proof of any weapon (prosecutor made the argument that even a pen could be a weapon) no physical evidence, and no evidence at all except from the girlfriend, who had gone back to this man after the alleged assault took place but before reporting the "crime". I saw the prosecutor later and asked him how the case came out. He was gleeful in the fact that he'd gotten this young man 40 years. Disgusting.
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