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I think most rational people agree that the punishment should fit the crime. Have people been sentenced disproportionately to their crimes? I'm sure there have been over the years. Then you hear terms like school to prison pipeline, sentencing reform and privilege.
Here's what she was charged with by the grand jury:
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Tanesha Renea Williams, 25, of Waldorf, was charged with:
• 5 counts of First-Degree Assault
• 7 counts of Second-Degree Assault
• Malicious Destruction of Property/Value Less Than $1,000
• Disorderly Conduct
• Reckless Driving
In total, she faces a maximum sentence of 65 years, 60 days incarceration.
Here we have a crime that ends in a plea deal. This is the statement about the plea deal.
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Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Monday, October 4, 2021, Tanesha Renea Williams, 26 of Waldorf, entered a plea in Charles County Circuit Court, in front of the Honorable Judge Amy J. Bragunier, to
First-Degree Assault,
4 counts of Second-Degree Assault,
and Malicious Destruction of Property.
4 of the 1st degree assault, 3 of the 2nd degree assault, the disorderly conduct and reckless driving charges are dropped.
This is today's press release about the sentencing in this case:
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Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Amy J. Bragunier sentenced Tanesha Renea Williams, 26, of Waldorf, to
40 years, 283 days,
with all but 4 years and 100 days suspended.
Williams will serve her time in jail for 18 months, followed by 2 years on home detention. Williams will then be on supervised probation for 5 years.
The sentence breakdown:
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Sentence
Count 13
• Malicious Destruction of Property
• 60 days
• Credit for time served
Count 12
• Second-Degree Assault
• 223 days
• Credit for time served
• Consecutive to count 13
Count 1
• First-Degree Assault
• 10 years, suspend all but 18 months at Charles County Detention Center
• Consecutive to counts 13 and 12
Count 4
• Second-Degree Assault
• 10 years, all suspended
• Consecutive to counts 13, 12, 1, 6, and 9
Count 6
• Second-Degree Assault
• 10 years, suspend all but 1 year to be served on home detention
• Consecutive to 13, 12, and 1
Count 9
• Second-Degree Assault
• 10 years, suspend all but 1 year to be served on home detention
• Consecutive to counts 13, 12, 1, and 6
Given the severity of the crime committed, it seems like a slap on the wrist sentence. It doesn't say if any of the assault victims gave any sentence input.
So is this the new norm? Overly lenient sentences for violent crimes due to some sort of historic inbalance? This wasn't an accident or some spur of the moment bad decision. In the video you can see the perp escalate the encounter. How does this make communities safer when violent criminals get sentences way below what is deserved?
I think most rational people agree that the punishment should fit the crime. Have people been sentenced disproportionately to their crimes? I'm sure there have been over the years. Then you hear terms like school to prison pipeline, sentencing reform and privilege.
Given the severity of the crime committed, it seems like a slap on the wrist sentence. It doesn't say if any of the assault victims gave any sentence input.
So is this the new norm? Overly lenient sentences for violent crimes due to some sort of historic inbalance? This wasn't an accident or some spur of the moment bad decision. In the video you can see the perp escalate the encounter. How does this make communities safer when violent criminals get sentences way below what is deserved?
You've been gone for a few years. The judges in Charles County, at least a couple of them, seem to be on a mission to lighten up sentencing.
Not going to do a link but there have been a couple recent ones over there where guys have been arrested for illegal possession of a firearm and drug charges while on probation for other firearms charges (one was Attempted Murder) and have been released on Own Recognizance.
What was the argument about? Why was someone video filming it? Why did the employees come outside? Did you see the pre-sentencing investigation? Did she have any priors? What were the full circumstances? Anything mitigating? What home plan was there?
There are so many opportunities for discretion from start to finish. She already did jail time. She is on suspended sentence. She serves 18 months in jail. Serves two years of home/monitor detention. Is on five years of supervised probation. If she screws up she gets to serve the full suspended sentence. How much more do you want to spend on her? Do you think the 40 years of free room and board, free medical care, free education, and counselling in a school for crime is more appropriate? Ca-ching: $400k for 20 years...she would never serve that long. That is silly. She must have a pretty solid home plan to get two years home detention.
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