The message may be this--if you are a Hispanic immigrant, your life is not worth as much as the life of a native-born, white citizen. A Bowie man, with the specific intention of robbing (and killing?) a Hispanic person received a 3o year sentence from Judge William Mulford, who then suspended twenty years of that plus five on probation. Perhaps it was because the murderer entered an Alford plea. Only an exhaustive study of sentencing histories could prove or disprove this notion.
The murder occurred in the Parole neighborhood of Annapolis.
Somehow I just don't think that if had been a native-born, white US citizen at the receiving end of the gun that the killer would only have gotten ten years. Who knows? CP is only speculating. I'd like to think that such things do not happen, but a man was murdered and is not coming back in ten years or thirty years. If the background and nationality of the dead was a factor, then we are all less safe and less comfortable. Hispanic immigrants have been specifically targeted by criminals for a variety of reasons. Remember, criminals are opportunists.
See it in The Baltimore Sun at: www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-md.ar.immigrant06feb06,0,1185722.story
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This is a frikkin shame. I don't know how anyone can be set free at all after intentionally taking a man's life. I hope the victim's family will prepare their civil court case way ahead of time. What else could they do?
Rep Thanks for the note. I'm not a lawyer. What can I say? There are sentencing guidelines and please bargains and who knows what else.
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