In light of the helicopter case today, I am a bit confused about the sentencing guidelines used by our cousins in England. In Manchester, Samantha Brown, 20, and her sister Toni Brown, 24, were sentenced in a horrific murder of Brown’s boyfriend and received brief jail sentences.
Brown (right) and her boyfriend had been at her sister’s house drinking when the boyfriend reportedly caught Brown in a intimate moment with another woman. When he accused her of being a lesbian, she reportedly grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the groin. When she fled the scene, Darvill allegedly begged Brown to call for a ambulance and she refused. She then stopped another woman from calling an ambulance. When the other woman called Darvill’s family, Brown again refused their pleas for her to give them the address for an ambulance or to call one herself.
After another hour, an ambulance was finally called but the man died from loss of blood.
Brown later said that she refused to call an ambulance for the dying man because she did not want the ambulance to wake her son who was sleeping upstairs.
Toni Brown was sentenced to just four years and Samantha Brown was jailed for just five years for the knife attack.
We have previously discussed criminal liability for people who fail to call police. In the United States, you cannot be charged for the failure to call police as a witness. However, Toni Brown crossed the line, even in the states, by actively barring others from calling an ambulance and her involvement in the crime which occurred on her premises. This is not a case involving the failure to meet the standards of a Good Samaritan but a failure to meet the standards of a human being.
This sentence seems shockingly out of proportion to the crime. These women warranted long jail sentences for crimes that should have shocked the conscience of the court.
Source: MSN
Buddha Is Laughing
1, August 3, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Before I crawl back into bed, I thought I should say that rumors of my spider eating are greatly exaggerated. I was indeed bitten by a brown recluse. 2nd time for me too. At least it didn’t try to eat me. I’ll be back when I feel up to it.
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Oh my god … please take care of yourself …
Red meat!!??
There is too much oxygen where you live … (that’s on one of the other threads) … big insects etc.
I know what you mean Blouise. AY is the only person on here that I have actually seen in person.
Swmom,
Funny you should mention Mike S as I was thinking of him when I was thinking of Buddha
Of course when AY was gone for a while there (later he said in was in a cabin in Wis.) … I asked you about him … strange how one worries about people one doesn’t really know personally … kind of like ol’ time correspondence pen pals
eat more red meat. Like a steak, rare, just tell em to slap it on the ass, knock its horns on and place it on your plate.
I am glad you are back. I wanna see you beat Bdaman at a pool hall….I really do. Maybe even at a game of 9ball….
Take care Buddah. I hope you have been to the doctor to get some antibiotics. A bite by a brown recluse is a serious matter..
Hey … I went back to your post … isn’t a K9 unit a dog … why would they call a dog … and you can’t be half witted with words and still write effective briefs … I suspect you have some very good stories in you
Before I crawl back into bed, I thought I should say that rumors of my spider eating are greatly exaggerated. I was indeed bitten by a brown recluse. 2nd time for me too. At least it didn’t try to eat me. I’ll be back when I feel up to it.
Nah Blondy, that was to you.
Anonymously Yours
1, August 3, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Well you did not answer any of the others, oh well.
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I’m sorry dear … was that to me …. what others?
Nah, Swarthmore mom, I think Buddha is more of a traditional Hermit, crab that is….
Spider bites can be serious. I hope Buddah was not bitten by a brown recluse.
Well you did not answer any of the others, oh well.
As to Buddha, I have not heard from him. I have heard of people eating spiders. To each his own. I am wondering how Spindell is doing. And you after your nip of Sangria, the Blood of the Vine….
AY
Reread my post and thought perhaps I had confused a portion … Byron has not come to my defense (even though I am the fairest of fair maidens) but to the defense of Bob (who I suspect is not a fair maiden) … ie figure of speech
Where is Buddha? I thought he was kidding when he said something about spider bites … he’s okay isn’t he?
Yep … got Byron’s message … he has come to the defense of the fair maiden (not me, figure of speech)… it’s fun
I have now cornered the market on toothpicks, but didn’t get up till after noon which could be blamed on the sangria if I were not willing to accept responsibility …
I have a very good friend who is a defense atty. but he and the cops do not get along … no, that’s incorrect, he and the cops do get along … it’s those who manage the cops, let’s say Lieutenant and above … there is real animosity present. He’s always very busy and he has some of the very best stories. He has that very tough exterior which often bleeds over into his off the job activities … that adversarial confrontation stance that is necessary on the job … I have gone to watch him several times in court as it is interesting to listen as he “turns a phrase” … so to speak … when he isn’t being tough, he’s gentle as a kitten, especially with kids.
Are you kidding … going through the parking lot to splash someone is a crime? My brothers used to do that all the time. They are all gone now … maybe it was the water karma god …
Thanks Bryon…I was typing as you were doing what Blouise asked….drats…Thanks you…
Blouise,
Try the Australian Thread..if not there then…I don’t know…maybe the Rabbit knows…or Just ask Alice when she’s 10 Feet Tall……
Why would anyone visit Florida in August..hmm, I have asked myself that question every year since 2000. I don’t know…oh yeah…its hot….its….not as crowded thats a first. Texas where I am at was 113 with the heat index. I again worked outside and am officially a Red Neck not that you couldn’t tell to begin with…
I suppose another reason that Florida is better than Lake Erie…is it does not smell of dead fish…at least not the part I know….then again, I have heard from people when I owned property in NY that Erie was the Ass Hole of the Great Lakes…did they ever figure out if St. Lawrence was in or out?
I suppose that liking to sprinkle night walkers is fun especially if you activate on motion….that would be mean…I don’t suppose you know anybody that intentionally splashes folks with water from the street to sidewalk to see how many people they can spray or is that to see how far the water goes….I heard of a case once upon a time and it involved a person intentionally getting off of the road to go through a parking lot and splashing someone. The person that was splashed never filed a report so the cop filed it under “Public Safety.” It turned out to be a bull shit charge…it was dismissed. I did laugh when I first read the case….It was funny..because it did not happen to me….other than that. oh well my day is pretty much the same….
Hey how many toothpicks did you pick up last night. Did you drink the Blood of the vine….?
You have friends that are cops…I used to practice criminal defense and I was just as much as an asswipe as the cop was. So, I got a reputation with the police, they were looking for me and I was batting a lot of balls in the courtroom. The bad ones mainly…The police force was about 147 at the time…they knew that I played as rough and I knew who the dirty ones were, because of the nature of my clients business. Lets just say that if a client called I was there for them, regardless if they could pay or not..I usually got it back in referrals. So the race was on. I once got stopped for speeding and I was cited for 11 civil-citations later I was allowed to proceed. Something about staying in the vehicle for officer safety, I said bullshit and got out, the K-9 unit was called after that. Well the next part of that is a whole book…
If you think I am half witted with the written word..well my momma always said that I could either have a silver tongue or a golden one…I opted for the forked one and life has been good so far…..
So when you come to Texas you’ll know more…
Blouise:
here is the link:
http://jonathanturley.org/2010/08/01/australian-public-schools-teaching-humans-and-dinosaurs-co-existed/#comment-149945
hope that helps.
AY,
Before I went down to the dock I was arguing with somebody named Bob but now I can’t remember what thread it was on so I have no idea if our argument is still going on
While you skip from thread to thread in your elf shoes … if you find it please come back and tell me
I have to go reset the sprinkler system timer for later this evening … sometimes I set it to turn on after dark just to give the late night walkers a thrill.
Anonymously Yours
1, August 3, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Blouise,
How are ya doing today?
Where is Swarthmore mom and her nemesis…..
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Just returned from a lovely boating trip on the lake … it’s still so hot here that being on the water offers a bit of relief … of course it smells of dead fish … nobody ever talks about that though
And how are you?
Swmon mentioned bdaman …I thought I read something TraderB asked him about liking Fla … it gave me the impression he was taking a trip to Fla and I was wondering why anyone would purposely visit Fla in the summer?
Ay Quit making trouble or I will summons bdaman to come on and attack you again. lol My daughter just got back from Palo Alto and decided it was okay to be from Austin but not Dallas. I agree. She wants to change her cell phone number.