Even the judge in the case found this punishment way too harsh!
Because Jacobia Grimes has five prior theft charges, he can be charged under Louisiana’s habitual offender law, which ups his charge from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by 20 years to life behind bars.
“Isn’t this a little over the top?” Judge Franz Zibilich said during the 34-year-old’s arraignment Thursday.
“It’s not even funny,” he said. “Twenty years to life for a Snickers bar, or two or three or four.”
The newest charge came about in December, after a store manager saw Grimes boosting candy. He willingly emptied out his pockets before the arrest — and the total of his sugary loot came to $31.
The arrest could have been a minor thing, but the district attorney’s office chose to apply the habitual offender law and seek an inexplicably harsh penalty.
Grimes’ priors include thefts from Rite-Aid, Sav-A-Center, Blockbuster and Rouses, according to his attorneys. In all cases, the stolen goods totaled to less than $500.
The father, proud of his actions regarding his daughter, posted the photos of his 3-year-old on Facebook, explaining that because of his her behavior towards him and the girl’s mother, he sent his daughter to jail.
Juliano Parker from Corpus Christi, Texas, went on his Facebook page and explained;
“My daughter Aubrey’Ella has been fighting with my wife and I, disrespecting us in public, not listening and talking back a lot.
“Spankings don’t work no more. My daughter is used to spankings and nowadays you can’t spank kids how they did back in the day [because] they call that abuse.
“So today I told my daughter since you wanna be a bad girl, let me show you where the bad kids go. I turned my apartment into a jail. I took away her clothes, now she gets to wear my orange shirt.”
The conversion of his apartment into a jail included putting a mattress on the floor for the 3-year-old to sleep on. The little girl was also fed differently, eating meat and potatoes with water while her brother and sister enjoyed pizza and juice. Her punishment also involved cleaning up the front room and doing dishes.
“Giving her a taste of what it’s like to be in jail for not following the law,” Juliano said. And to those who disagreed with his parenting skills towards his 3-year-old, Juliano wrote. “Now ya’ll can say what ya’ll want but I’m breaking this bad behavior before it gets too out of control without spanking her.”
Based on the comments he received there were some who agreed and some that disagreed with his tactics.
“Don’t ever apologize for being a parent and how you choose to parent [because] she is truly blessed to have someone care enough to show her how to behave as a lady should, so keep up the good work,” The Daily News quoted one user wrote.
“Sad,” another commenter wrote. “That is a baby. Nothing cute or funny about this. Nor is it a good idea. Shameful. [Parenting] and training is more than spankings and punishment. People really need to take parenting classes.”
And another, “I doubt social services would find this funny but my God, what else can you do with these kids nowadays.”
Juliano later removed the post from Facebook after many comments, saying that he didn’t expect the post to go viral.
“I really [regret] posting that pic of my daughter on social media like that I admit it was wrong didn’t think it was gonna go viral smh God knows my heart. My daughter is a good girl just been acting out lately and I was just trying to show her with bad behavior comes consequence. Now my daughter all over the internet for being bad kid but in reality she just acting out for attention.
“So I been just showing her love and being extra nice but not letting her walk all over me just let trying to drive out all that bad behavior with love just like MLK say hate can’t drive out hate or in my case anger can’t drive out anger but love can so my advice to all the parents who shared my post love you kids but don’t let them walk all over you just like the OG from my church told me be consist with how you discipline you kids and after a while they know you mean business but just be patient with kids . Just as God gives us Grace.”
After running over his friend with an SUV last week killing him and injuring another man, Suge Knight was arrested and learned of his fate today getting both murder and attempted murder charges brought against him, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney.
The official charges came hours after Knight’s $2.2-million bail was revoked.
L.A. County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida told The Times that Knight’s bail was pulled for the following reasons: “Possible flight risk, three-strike candidate, possible witness intimidation issues and his criminal past.”
Knight, 49, is accused of running over Terry Carter and Cle “Bone” Sloan with his truck.
Carter was killed.
The confrontation began about 3 p.m. Thursday when Knight and the victims began arguing on the set of “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the group N.W.A, said Lt. John Corina of the Sheriff’s Department’s detectives unit.
Knight is due to make his first court appearance in Compton on Tuesday.
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TMZ is reporting that Chris Brown’s latest bid for freedom was just DENIED.
Brown — who was jailed last month after getting booted from rehab — was flown to D.C.and promptly jailed as he awaited trial in his assault case.
The trial was supposed to start today … but it was just postponed until June.
Brown asked the judge in the Rihanna beating case to release him, but the judge just shut him down.
Translation: Brown will soon be flown back to L.A. — where he’ll remain in jail until June … at the very least. It looks like he’ll be flown back to D.C. on Con air … a trip way worse than economy.
Mr Davis said in an interview for Nightline: ‘I would like Michael Dunn to put me on his visitor’s list in prison. I would like to go see him and sit across the table.
‘One thing that I know that we would talk about is, “I have to try to make you understand what you’ve taken away from our family, some way, whether it be words or what, I have to make you understand.”‘
‘We have to make him say that, “you killed Jordan and it was unlawful,”‘ Davis added.
‘Because otherwise if you leave it, then you killed Jordan and it was OK that you killed Jordan.’
He said: ‘This guy had indifference towards my son and killed him and continued to shoot at these boys.
‘A person like Michael Dunn could be so callous as to disregard the life of Jordan Davis. Just threw his life away like it was nothing.
‘You didn’t do what I told you to do, so I’m going to shoot you.’
His mother and father described how their son was the ‘life of the party’ and would strive to include everyone.
It comes after A juror who deliberated on the Florida ‘loud music’ trial has spoken out, saying she believes Michael Dunn should have been convicted of murdering 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
Dunn, 47, was found guilty on several counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting at other teens in the car with Davis, but the jury was deadlocked on whether or not Dunn murdered Davis or felt he was reacting to a threat.
Dr. Conrad Murray left the Los Angeles County jail under sheriff’s escort, avoiding reporters and Michael Jackson fans waiting for his release early Monday.
Murray, who served two years of a four-year sentence for causing Michael Jackson’s death, was driven away in a sheriff’s car for the “safety and security” of the jail, sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
The handful of Jackson fans gathered outside the jail accused the Los Angeles County sheriff of showing favoritism to Murray by slipping him out of the jail through a back exit, instead of the door where freed prisoners normally leave.
Murray, who the sheriff’s spokesman described as an exemplary inmate, was kept away from the general inmate population during his two years in the jail. He was also allowed to have liberal use of a telephone inside his cell during his last year.
Murray’s lawyer told reporters outside the jail that he would try to get his medical licenses reinstated in California, Texas and Nevada so he can resume the medical career interrupted by his conviction on the involuntary manslaughter in 2011.
President Obama yesterday stood alone in the cramped Robben Island prison cell in South Africa that once held Nelson Mandela, gazing out at the blue sky through a barred window.
Obama, who says his political career was inspired by Mandela’s nonviolent fight against apartheid, again drew inspiration by touring the penal island with First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Obama had visited before, but it was a new experience for the rest of his family.
“Nelson Mandela showed us that one man’s courage can move the world,” Obama said later in a speech at the University of Cape Town.
“There was something different about bringing my children. Malia’s now 15, Sasha is 12, and seeing them stand within the walls that once surrounded Nelson Mandela,” he said, “I knew this was an experience that they would never forget.”
The tour was led by Ahmed Kathrada, a former inmate and anti-apartheid activist imprisoned with Mandela.
Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years captive in the grim confines of cell 7B, where Obama entered alone and briefly reflected.
Mandela, 94, has been hospitalized in critical condition for three weeks with a lung infection.
Actor Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being convicted on tax charges in February 2010.
The release to a supervised residential location in New York occurred Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN.
Snipes, 50, who starred in the “Blade” action movies and “White Men Can’t Jump,” had been serving time at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. A jury convicted him of willfully failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Snipes was acquitted of felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
In June 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his sentence, which he had argued was too harsh for a misdemeanor conviction.
A Florida Judge today gave George Zimmerman 48 hours to return to jail after granting a prosecutor’s request to revoke his bail. Prosecutors said that Zimmerman and his wife Shellie knew, but failed to disclose, a fund of $135,000 donated by supporters that was accessible to Zimmerman during his bail hearing. During the hearing, they said they had limited funds available and would have difficulty posting bond. Bail was subsequently set at $150,000.
As a result of prosecutors’ petition, Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester found that Zimmerman misled the court and revoked his bond.
Prosecutors also claimed that Zimmerman had a second passport he failed to surrender, in direct violation of the terms of his bail. Zimmerman’s second passport was a replacement, granted to him after he believed his original passport was lost. The second passport was issued, then Zimmerman found the original, leaving him with two passports – and leaving one in his possession during his bail. Judge Lester, however, dismissed this claim, stating that it was the same as having a replacement drivers license.
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