[FLA17]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Buzzcut

All these 2 cases show is that they were arrested and notice all of them are being held NO BOND. Check back on the FL DOC's website and run their names in about 12 to 24 months and you'll see the armed robber serving 30 and the other 2 LWOP'd.....I'd bet money on it.

I doubt it. I'll bet on the robber getting 2-3 MAX(i doubt he will even get that) and the others maybe getting life for the murder.

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Buzzcut

Wrong, you can get in a fist fight you didn't even start and if you get charged, you could lose a CNA license, let alone an LPN or RN.

Fist fights? Who gets into fist fights? The last time I had one was in the 7th grade.

If an adult can't handle a problem like an adult, then maybe they don't need to working in a field that requires you to make important decisions.

[Huckleberry3911948]

too many lawyers???? with a good nuf lawyer, u could blow up NYC and walk free.
that is why obama had bin laden shot instead.

[seain dublin]

Well Tampa area dentist Matthew Moye drove drunk and reckless on 10/31/10 and killed two college students walking on the sidewalk. They had just gotten off work from their job at a downtown hotel, a 3rd worker was able to jump out of the way in time.

Nothing has been done with him, he still practices dentistry. It's a joke here.

People run red lights and kill someone and they get a ticket and go home.

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by FLA17

Headline says it all in this one. I'm not even close to surprised but I should be. but that's Floida for you.

Port Charlotte man arrested for 25th time following armed robbery | The News-Press | news-press.com


2 criminals with "extensive criminal history" rob and murder store clerk.

Pasco store clerk dies from head injuries suffered in robbery - Tampa Bay Times

Originally Posted by FLA17

The sentences are tiny though compared to other states. I'm assuming it's because there's so many messed up people in Florida that the prisons are over crowded.

Originally Posted by FLA17

I doubt it. I'll bet on the robber getting 2-3 MAX(i doubt he will even get that) and the others maybe getting life for the murder.

You can pull up similar stories from every state. Cherry picked news stories show nothing. You have posted nothing to show that Florida sentencing guidelines are more lenient than other places, in fact you have really only posted your opinion on a subject that could easily be researched and facts presented to support an opinion.
Do you fail to post statistics because they don't back up what you say?

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

Well Tampa area dentist Matthew Moye drove drunk and reckless on 10/31/10 and killed two college students walking on the sidewalk. They had just gotten off work from their job at a downtown hotel, a 3rd worker was able to jump out of the way in time.

Nothing has been done with him, he still practices dentistry. It's a joke here.

People run red lights and kill someone and they get a ticket and go home.

It's called due process, a legal right that any citizen OF THE U.S. has. His trial is still ongoing. He has a bond of $119,000 and pre-trial release conditions that he can leave his house only between 7am and 7pm to go to work.
Their is the presumption of innocence until the guilty verdict no matter how much evidence there is.
If you would rather live in a country that will just throw you in a cell at their leisure there are many to choose from.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by FLA17

This is the least informed post I've ever seen. Just read the local tampa news for a week and you'll know this is nonsense.

This.

This has to be the least informed post. The poster wrote:

Wrong.....fl has 10-20-life law on the books

Show/bring a gun get 10 years min
Shoot the gun 20 years min
Shoot someone get life

That's the law. How is that uninformed? Reading a newspaper doesn't change the law.

I'm sorry, but you've been posting these unsubstantiated rants for years. Do I think there are a lot of criminals, con artists, wanted folks in Florida? Yes. An inordinate amount. But it has nothing to do with the laws. In fact, I find Florida's law enforcement to often overstep their bounds. My guess is it is a direct result of all the lawless folks running around.

This is the only state that I've been in where a cop routinely asks for driver's license for all passengers in vehicle during a routine traffic stop. It's the only state I've been in that when you call the cops to your home they ask YOU and everyone in the home for driver's licenses. Why? Because in the mind of the cops you could be a fugitive from justice, have a warrant out for your arrest. I was a crime reporter for many years and I've never heard of that happening anywhere else.

But why you are allowed to write post after post for years that is nonsensical, controversial, often smacks of racism and never backed by fact is beyond me. In my mind that is a sign of a troll but it is not my website.

[Hieronymus Bosch]

Originally Posted by NALEXAND

Well if you want a state that's REAL tough on crime, move to the Commonwealth of Virginia. They dont play the radio.

Some of the most aggressive policing in the country, too, from the state troopers to the city cops. You feel like you MUST have a body in the trunk or something when they pop you for doing 35 in a 25 or having a busted tail light.

And, honestly, I've never been able to figure out why that is. I guess the politicians are good at working the crime angle, or maybe it's a hangover from reconstruction.

[Hieronymus Bosch]

Originally Posted by Synergy1

[color=black][font=Verdana]I am a former workaholic from a big city in the North Eastern part of the US.....

I am now retired and living in SE Florida. The cops here take a no nonsense view on criminals including auto speeders, dope smugglers, marijuana growers and I wish they could put them on an island infested by animals and creatures that harm humans... Keep up the good work.

I believed that the southern way of life is "start off slow then ease up" and is true in cases involving good family values....I am happy to know that we for the most part are protected by the local police force....Just to ensure my family is going to be safe in our home environment I have a license to carry and I do....I really hope no one is foolish to invade our home while I am here but if someone does may God save them because they will be mine..

The California school system is for the birds....All 4 of my brothers get their first 2 years of college free thanks to their taxpayers. Some of the country's saddest areas for crime are located in California and if one was not aware of a certain area the person could get in trouble because the bad areas look like a regular middle class bunch of homes.

Funny, I've yet to encounter this level of intolerance in a native Floridian. Southeast Florida never was "southern" in the first place, though, so whatever.

Why anyone would really get their panties in a bunch about dope growers is beyond me, unless they're armed and squatting on somebody else's land. It beats breaking into houses or going on welfare, doesn't it, and curmudgeonnly tightwads moving down to retire hardly provide the sort of economic growth the population so desperately needs.

[Hieronymus Bosch]

Originally Posted by FLA17

Well if you paid attention to what the media chooses to show you would also think that there are way more "minorities" on death row than whites too. But if you look at Florida's Death row roster it's majority white males by far. So don't simplify the issue like that. In Florida I've seen plenty of blacks and whites get off easy, but more blacks because in counties that are almost all white the law seems to be a little more harsh on crime in some cases. Pinellas and Lee county are a joke. Pasco and hillsborough are a little harsher. Citrus and hernando give you more time and I'm assuming north florida does too.

You're twisting his words around. He didn't even say that it's true, he just explained why many minorities percieve it that way.

And nobody said anything about death row- you assumed that was the topic. Tons of people are in jail for way too long (IMO) due to repeat petty charges or probation/parole violations. Sure, maybe that guy who robbed a convenience store got off, but then you've got some welder or plumber or landscaper who's locked up because he got caught up in a prostitution sting while on probation for his third open container violation in the park across the street from his house, and maybe, just maybe the fact that the cops happen to be on his neighborhood like flies has something to do with that.