Mauricio Sanchez was sentenced to 23 months yesterday for hitting 11-year-old Gladys Reyes, dragging her a third of a mile, and then running away when another driver forced him off the road.
Reyes lost an arm, and is in intensive therapy to teach her to walk again. Maybe.
Margaret from Crime Watch quotes the judge, and comments:
Before imposing sentence Wednesday, Spicer said that he doesn’t think Sanchez “is an awful man, but he made an awful decision.”
The judge said the incident began as an accident, but escalated into a serious crime with Sanchez’s decision to flee.
“I wish I could do more for the Reyes family,” Spicer said. “But I can’t repair the damages. It’s a sad day for all of us.”
These quotes show exactly what the logic is behind liberal sentencing. These judges try to look into the soul of a person and see whether they are really “a good person” or not. They aren’t judging the crime or even the fact that somebody had to take several steps to even be in a position to commit a crime. In fact, they really aren’t treating the perp like a adult, more like a child or an irrational person, whose imputed motives matter more than than either the actual crime or even the consequences of that crime. Nobody was asking this judge “to repair the damage”– even if such a thing were possible. They were asking for this guy to be punished for his crime.
Which, ludicrous as 23 months is for such a crime, probably won’t happen anyway:
The judge said that he expects Sanchez will face deportation back to El Salvador as a result of the conviction.We actually don’t even know how long this guy will be in jail. The Star Tribune reporter speculates as little as 16 months.
16 months.
I can’t write anything more about that. It’s the written equivalent of speechlessness.
Friggen liberal scum judges.
This bum in black robes should suffer the same fate as Gladys Reyes, and see if he wants to be so light on the sentencing.
Ignoramus. Absolute ignoramus.
Throw the friggen bum out.
This judges record should be looked at by all Dakota County voters. I have sat in when he has been the presiding judge. My first time, we witnessed him and lawyer Katherine Morris in a verbal disagreement at the end of the hearing she was involved in. When she left the court room he could not stop talking about her. This was far from maintaining proper decorum in the courtroom and protecting the dignity of those proceedings. He once gave a alternative to a convicted batter of a women (his 13 charge) the avoidance of a sentence if he would move to Alaska. The guy did not move but proceeded to batter this women. He was asked by the Minneapolis Star reporter why did you make this decision. His comment was “It was only one women and who cares about one women. How many people will this judge destroy in his proceedings. He currently hears Family Law cases, how many children will suffer from his decisions?