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Just deserts
Judge Carlton Penn recently sentenced a young man who pleaded guilty to two burglaries in Amissville to four years in the Youthful Offenders Program of the Virginia Department of Corrections.
In pronouncing the sentence, Judge Penn overruled the pre-sentencing report’s recommendation of probation, which had also been sought by the young man’s attorney. The young man had no prior record, and leniency had been urged by both the probation officer and his counsel.
Judge Penn disagreed.
Pronouncing the crimes “despicable”, Judge Penn noted that in choosing elderly, infirm victims, both of whom lived alone, “you didn’t pick on someone your own size... First offenders,” he added, “should not always get probation.”
We agree.
This situation was repugnant. The defendants were teenagers, who described the breaking and entering of an elderly woman’s home as “a trophy hunt.” In the other case, both the victim and the perpetrators testified that they were “friends,” the victim adding that “I’ve known (him) since he was bom... he fished in my pond.”
Surely, the argument will be made that sentencing a x young man with no record of trouble with the law to prison will serve no rehabilitative purpose - that it would be better to allow him to continue to work and attempt to rehabilitate himself within society.
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