Sian James Gets 10 Years In Prison
A judge sentenced a Baltimore man to 10 years in prison for killing a city police officer over a parking spot in 2010.
Sian James was handed the maximum sentence Wednesday in the death of Officer Brian Stevenson in Canton on Oct. 16, 2010.
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4 comments:
Only 10 years? That is the MAXIMUM??
wow and we wonder why we have so much trash in this state.i cant believe this is even acceptable.they gice a cop killer 10 years but a drug dealer 25+.this man should be put to death.there shouldnt even be a prison term.
He should have been given at least a life sentence with no possibility of parole. Good ole liberal Maryland--the land where crime obviously pays!
You don't know the facts of the case. The man who was killed (doesn't matter that he was a cop- he was off duty, he NEVER identified himself as such so it's impertinent)was drunk driving (BAC >0.08), and drinking alcohol in his car. The testimonies were proven false on both sides. You can't give someone 1st degree murder when the investigation/ presented evidence was as flawed as it was. The point was that the man threatened to shoot the kids, and the defendant 'truly' felt like the guy was going to kill him. Whether that's 'reasonable' or not, it doesn't matter. This is why he got manslaughter, not murder. Those are the laws of the United States, not just 'ole liberal Maryland--the land where crime obviously pays!'
It is an absolute terrible tragedy that this happened, but the way the news reports it is very biased. If we don't like our laws, we should change them, but we can't bend them on a case-by-case basis.
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