Comments on: The New Felony Sentencing Grid

By: leegee

leegee — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:55:27 +0000

Hey barney boy…..he’s a good ole boy like my son who has 19 yrs to go for a crime he committed while he was on cocaine……k……so ur saying since all he did at this point was hurt himself he is better NOT……he is the same if he doesnt do his time he might go back for something alot worse next time he gets all jacked up on his little bit of coke!

By: leegee

leegee — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:50:37 +0000

so Marilyn u feel like some deserve punishment and others dont plz….get a grip i kno i live reality every day can my son plz have a pardon while ur doing all this pardoning of the coke heads…………..do ur research…..drugs and the use thereof are the reason that the prisons are full…….with these heinous crime actions being the end result of the abuse of crack/coke etc.

By: leegee

leegee — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:43:40 +0000

shut [edited] up…….a sin is a sin….a crime is a crime [edited] so the dear friend who did coke hung with them on the outside ne way feel me or he would of never had the hook ups to get the heinous coke/crack whatever these criminals have family and loved ones that feel the same way u do about ur dear friend……please give me a break [edited]? There are some in there that did these heinous crimes while under the influence of just a smidgen of coke…….like my son and he is a dear son……

By: James C Evans

James C Evans — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:59:23 +0000

I don’t know if this material would interest you, but to make a long story short. I was in the Marines for 8 yrs and stopped 5 days before my plane left to go to Iraq w/ warrant served to the wrong address, repeatedly harassed by the det’s involved w/ proof and an audio recording of them lying at a sect 8 hearing to get my disabled mother kicked out of her home… I was dropped to the Inactive Ready Reserve w/ non recommendation for promotion pending the outcome of the case. It’s a class 2 misd I’m accused of using someone’s credit card for $5, finding it, using it, returning it and allegedly confessing to the officer. Witness specifically places someone else using the card and I’m still found guilty b/c the cop simply said I admitted to him I did it and even his notes/crime initially accused or the indictment doesn’t match the story come trial. Everyone admits it’s not a confession on transcripts, (judge, da & detective) yet it’s submitted to the jury and guilty of 2 class h felonies for 1 class 2 misdemeanor of $5. No prior record, cop lies on stand 13 times which are undeniable in black and white and 7 more that are somewhat deniable yet unbelievable… yet the whole case hinges on his word and destroys my life. My case was one of the only 20 decided last year whilst the State’s Attourney flat out lies in two of her arguments siting things that never even happened in court and NOBODY takes it into consideration or forces her to stop! I have a video review of the evidence at this site if you think I’m bullshittin’ ONE BIT. Is this something you could use? Any help whatsoever could help this poor young Marine out.

By: whitley

whitley — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:41:14 +0000

I think until the people who sit back and make this new guidelines become victims…they will never truly demostrate true fairness.

By: Mary Jane Ethridge Clark

Mary Jane Ethridge Clark — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:53:11 +0000

Hello. Good report. I’m filming a documentary, tentatively entitled, “Prisons R Us” based on my experiences as the souse of a former Sec. of NC Dept. of Crime Control and Superior Court Judge, my 20+ years of managing political campagins (judges had a special place in my heart) and as a person who actively volunteers with several compassionate non-profit organizations in Raleigh.
Would you be interested in talking with me on the record about structured sentencing and your views on America’s incarceration rates? Or, perhaps you could recommend someone to me from the UNC School of Government?
Thank you for your reports. Please do let me know if you can offer any assistance on this project.
Regards-
MJ Clark

By: Marilyn Johnson

Marilyn Johnson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:55:48 +0000

I totally agree with Barney Kirby!!!

By: Barney Kirby

Barney Kirby — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:58:02 +0000

Shame on all you legislature people for letting this happen. He will never share a meal with his Mom as she is older and completely devastated. He is her only son and she needs him desperately so does his son, his grandchildren who their mother passed away and the closet thing they know to a parent is PaPa, serving 5-7 years. Everytime I say it, I want to vomit.
PASS HB1360 INTRODUCED BY MR HAIRE SO LOW LEVEL FELONS WILL NOT CLOG THE PRISON $28,000 X THE LARGE % OF HABITUAL FELONS INCARCERATED IS ALOT OF MONEY FOR OUR STATE.
DO WHAT MAKES SENSE!

By: Barney Kirby

Barney Kirby — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:51:11 +0000

And they put a dear man I know in 5-7 years for a 1/10 gram of cocaine cause this was his third strike. Never hurt a soul but himself and is housed with murderers rapist ( heinous crimes)
Where in the hell is the justice in this?

By: Prosecutor

Prosecutor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:49:46 +0000

I would hardly call the changes to the grid, “sometimes higher … sometimes lower.” The General Assembly shaved a *huge* amount of time off of Level VI, the level where the worse offenders would fall, by as much as three or more years for B2 through D felonies. The only increases I saw were, at most, six months here and there in the IV and V levels.

I find it reprehensible that Raleigh can find money to build bridges to nowhere and tea pot museums, but cannot build a few more prison beds to keep the worse offenders locked up. Sentencing in this state was a joke to begin with. The legislature just made it worse.