For the past two years we have chronicled serial drug dealers, shooters and murderers who have been repeatedly given light sentences of probation after probation and released to the streets so they can offend again and again.
Now we get a sixty-five year old woman who embezzled money from the Town of Mt. Pleasant to the tune of $52,000. This woman, Candice Bottorf, pled guilty to the offense. She entered her guilty plea before Judge Roger Young and was sentenced to five (5) years in prison and five (5) years probation.
Let's take a look at the 65 year old woman who was such a threat to the community she had to be locked away for five years and serve an additional five on probation.
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Yep. Good move on the part of the 9th Circuit Solicitor and Judge Young. You really showed everyone what being a hard-ass is all about. If you had just sentenced this one to probation like you have done with numerous other violent thugs she would be out shooting up the hood this weekend while the rest of us were trying to watch the big game.
Yes, she stole a lot of taxpayer money. Yes, she deserves to be punished for it. The question that needs to be asked is this. How much of the remaining $39,000 owed by Bottorf does the town of Mt. Pleasant think they will recoup from a woman who will be 68 to 70 years old when she is released from prison?
How does it make sense to send this woman to prison for five years when you have truly dangerous and violent thugs running your streets who the 9th Circuit Solicitor and the sentencing judges repeatedly set free?
Those sentencing priorities in the 9th Circuit aren't out of whack at all, are they? Sheesh.
Now we get a sixty-five year old woman who embezzled money from the Town of Mt. Pleasant to the tune of $52,000. This woman, Candice Bottorf, pled guilty to the offense. She entered her guilty plea before Judge Roger Young and was sentenced to five (5) years in prison and five (5) years probation.
Let's take a look at the 65 year old woman who was such a threat to the community she had to be locked away for five years and serve an additional five on probation.
Yep. Good move on the part of the 9th Circuit Solicitor and Judge Young. You really showed everyone what being a hard-ass is all about. If you had just sentenced this one to probation like you have done with numerous other violent thugs she would be out shooting up the hood this weekend while the rest of us were trying to watch the big game.
Yes, she stole a lot of taxpayer money. Yes, she deserves to be punished for it. The question that needs to be asked is this. How much of the remaining $39,000 owed by Bottorf does the town of Mt. Pleasant think they will recoup from a woman who will be 68 to 70 years old when she is released from prison?
How does it make sense to send this woman to prison for five years when you have truly dangerous and violent thugs running your streets who the 9th Circuit Solicitor and the sentencing judges repeatedly set free?
Those sentencing priorities in the 9th Circuit aren't out of whack at all, are they? Sheesh.