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Shaquanda Cotton: 7 years for a shove?
Honestly, I am as sick of the racist stories as everyone else, but this one got skipped over at some point. I'm just wondering what everyone thinks because this one is obviously a really funny case. I'm not upset, more just almost skeptical that this is actually a real story, but it is...
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quote: HOUSTON — Shaquanda Cotton, the black teenager in the small east Texas town of Paris whose prison sentence of up to 7 years for shoving a teacher’s aide sparked nationwide controversy, was released Saturday.
Her release, ordered by a special conservator appointed to overhaul the state’s scandal-ridden juvenile prison system, was the first of what could be hundreds as a panel of civil rights leaders begins reviewing the sentences of every youth incarcerated by the Texas Youth Commission to weed out those being held arbitrarily.
“We have no confidence in the system that was in place,” said Jim Hurley, spokesman for the conservator, Jay Kimbrough. “And this case is an example of what we expect to happen if something wrong has been done to youths being held inside that system.”
Cotton, who is 15, had no prior criminal record when she was incarcerated a year ago under an indeterminate sentence that could have lasted until her 21st birthday. Her case rose to national prominence and became the focus of ongoing civil rights protests after a March 12 Tribune story detailed how a 14-year-old white girl convicted of the more serious crime of arson was sentenced to probation by the same judge.
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Oct 11th, 2007 05:16 PM
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Re: Shaquanda Cotton: 7 years for a shove?
quote: (post ) Originally posted by chithappens
Honestly, I am as sick of the racist stories as everyone else
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Oct 11th, 2007 06:09 PM
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LOL, I am but this one actually is worth looking at because this one has no real basis for jail time.
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Oct 11th, 2007 06:10 PM
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what...no death sentence? pffft
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Oct 11th, 2007 06:16 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by botankus
This made me think Czarina or FOTN started this thread.
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Oct 11th, 2007 06:18 PM
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Well I'm not mention it to start anything. This case actually makes no damn sense.
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Oct 11th, 2007 06:23 PM
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well, "shove" is very vague. what if she shoved her off a cliff?
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Oct 11th, 2007 06:25 PM
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this is just retarded. She should be placed in juvenile hall until she's 18.....but not jail. It's not like she and a group of friends were stomping some unconscious kid's head into a floor over and over, blatantly attempting to cause serious and permanent injury. She just displayed an act of violence against an authority figure in school. Much like punching a teacher, she must be dealt with and counseled to understand boundaries in life and what she did was unacceptable by putting her in juvenile hall with other kids where her authority figures will have weapons to curb such violence.
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