Re: Off topic: Peter Warwick

["R. Bentz Kirby" <bocelts@usit.net>]

If Warwick was an average joe, he wouldn't have gotten a felony charge to
begin with.   The amount to get it to a felony was the combined
purchase.  But, it was done for publicity.  It seems to me that most
folks would have been charged with a misdemeanor and gone through
pre-trial intervention and never have been in the system.  That said, it
is still a manipulation of the system to then let him slid through in
time to get to the football stadium this Saturday!  Why was that so
important?  Duh.

Gene Kirkpatrick wrote:

> The problem the FSU people had with the early plea-bargain was jail
> time for a first offense, non-violent, less than felony level (when
> the two cases were separated--$420 divided by two) crime, especially
> when the girl who initiated the scam got probation.  It was a case of
> athlete stupidity and system over-reaction.  The accepted plea seems
> to be just.  Had he been a legislator's son or equivalent, no one
> would have heard of it.  Anyway, I hope he's wised up.  A lot of
> people will condemn him and then turn around and mail a check to
> George W; we tend to show mercy to whom we choose.  Gene

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Bentz Kirby
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