{"id":612,"date":"2007-03-22T06:18:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/22\/man-who-dragged-girl-with-his-van-is-sentenced\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T12:18:16","slug":"man-who-dragged-girl-with-his-van-is-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Man who dragged girl with his van is sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mauricio Sanchez was sentenced to 23 months<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Reyes lost an arm, and is in intensive therapy to teach her to walk again.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n

Margaret from Crime Watch quotes the judge, and comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Before imposing sentence Wednesday, Spicer<\/span> said that he doesn’t think Sanchez “is an awful man, but he made an awful decision.” <\/em><\/p>\n

The judge said the incident began as an accident, but escalated into a serious crime with Sanchez’s decision to flee. <\/em><\/p>\n

“I wish I could do more for the Reyes family,” Spicer<\/span> said. “But I can’t repair the damages. It’s a sad day for all of us.”<\/em>
\nThese 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<\/span> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which, ludicrous as 23 months is for such a crime, probably won’t happen anyway:<\/p>\n

The judge said that he expects Sanchez will face deportation back to El Salvador as a result of the conviction.<\/em>We actually don’t even know how long this guy will be in jail. The Star Tribune reporter speculates as little as 16 months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

16 months.<\/p>\n

I can’t write anything more about that.\u00a0 It’s the written equivalent of speechlessness.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 Maybe. Margaret from Crime Watch quotes the judge, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}