More Soft on Crime Bull Shit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kingston-...140037504.html
"A man convicted of assaulting and catastrophically injuring his newborn son in 2008 had his prison sentence reduced on Monday from 25 years to 15 years.
Jacob Matthew Mejia, 31, was 17 years old when assaulted 6-week-old Aiden and left him with permanent brain damage, requiring constant care. A Kitsap County Superior Court jury convicted him of first-degree assault and an “aggravating circumstance” for Aiden being a “particularly vulnerable” victim.
An appellate court upheld Mejia’s conviction and sentence in 2013. However, a later state Supreme Court decision on juvenile sentencing led appellate judges to rule that since Mejia was 17 when he assaulted Aiden he was entitled to be resentenced with a judge considering his youthfulness at the time of the crime.
The court decisions, acknowledging that juveniles have immature brains compared to adults that leave them prone to poor decision-making, have led to an increasing number of resentencings for those convicted of crimes committed when they were juveniles.
Locally those include the fourth sentencing for a South Kitsap man who at age 17 raped and murdered 85-year-old Ann Presler in 1989. The new considerations when sending juveniles to prison will also loom over next month’s sentencing of Lola Luna, 17, convicted last week of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of Syanna Puryear-Tucker. At the time of Puryear-Tucker's death, Luna was 16."
Nations are judged by the empathy they have for the victims of crime. There can be no greater cruelty to the innocent victims of an attack than to provide lenience to those who have harmed them. It is an act of supreme hate that should shock the conscious. And yet time and time again we see Democrats engage in this viciousness.
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Originally Posted by Lewkowski
