Commit a crime here, and the judge might just give you a stern talking to.
Four charged in connection with beating, theft in Rochester parking lot
Robbery, riot and assault charges have been filed against four men accused of beating up a man in the Perkins restaurant parking lot (16th Ave. N.W.) 9:30 p.m. Monday night, and stealing things from his car.
Five to seven males surrounded another man; three punched and kicked him while others watched.
Suspects' records
- Demaine Jendale Cortez Barker, 20, 425 11th Ave. N.E.
"Barker was charged in May with a felony, accused of selling drugs. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges, and a trial is set for January. In 2007, he was charged with leading police on a chase and jumping from his running car, which crashed into a house. In December, he pleaded guilty to felony fleeing a peace officer and misdemeanor fourth-degree damage to property. He was sentenced in May and put on probation for three years, to run concurrently with sentences on a fifth-degree felony drug charge and a felony charge of failing to appear at a court hearing. He was back in court Sept. 11 and resentenced after admitting violating terms of probation.
"The judge continued the three-year probation.
"In 2004, he was sentenced in juvenile court for assaulting another teen with a wooden table leg during a shop class at John Marshall High School. The victim suffered a fractured skull and needed several surgeries. Barker was 16 at the time. Barker was put on probation to age 19 and ordered to complete a juvenile residential program."
- Eddie Lee Davis, 20, 938 Eighth Ave. N.E.
"Davis was charged with felony receiving stolen property last September. He was accepted into a court diversion program in May."
Also charged were
- Marcus Orlando Smith, 25, Chicago
- Jerry Timothy Brown, 21, 1104 E. Center St., No. 5
It would be a help to voters if the judges who sentenced these guys to nothing for their crimes were identified by the paper.
1 comment:
I agree, we need to know who these judges are and, considering what is going on in our neighborhoods, an explanation why they sentence in the manner that they do. How many felonies does someone have to commit before they are committed? To me, one is enough....send them to prison. And, once they are out of prison, send them back to where they came from. It's no wonder types like this love to come to Rochester. I would venture a guess that even if they committed murder, they would probably get a slap on the hand and turned loose again, especially when we have the judges we are stuck with in this town. When is enough enough? This is total incompetence on the part of our court system, espcially the judges. They are coming to be a bigger threat to the safety and integrity of our community than the offenders.
Court Watch is a great program tracking thse judges and their decisions that are published prior to elections. They are in desperate need of volunteers to monitor these judges and keep records of their decisions. This may be our only hope of getting community oriented judges in our community. Perhaps we should bring the sheriff from Arizona here to take care of things. Pink jummsuits, hard labor, balogna sandwiches for lunch, limited TV with only selected stations, etc. Might even cut down the tax dollars we are spending to support the offenders. Jail and prison should not be intended to coddle the offenders and neither should the judges.
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