Byker
2018-07-17 16:23:31 UTC
There's a reason we have three-strikes-and-you're-out laws.
It's not because of
A. Racism
B. A prison pipeline
C. A national slave industry
Or any of the other garbage that the Left claims. It's because it's a good
way to lower crime rates by locking up repeat offenders. Here's what
happened when Governor Jay Inslee decided to bypass them and commuted the
sentence of a repeat offender.
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SEATTLE - When David Conyers was led away from a King County courtroom more
than 20 years ago he was never to be a free man again.
Convicted in a string of convenience-store robberies throughout Seattle,
Conyers became the 29th person in the state sentenced to life under the
three-strikes-you’re-out law. He was just 21 when he was turned over to the
Department of Corrections - at the time the youngest three-striker in the
state.
In 2015 he was given a second chance, in the form of a commutation by Gov.
Jay Inslee: https://tinyurl.com/yal7laxe
But freedom was short-lived.
On Wednesday a team of Seattle police detectives showed up at United
Recycling, the Georgetown plant where Conyers has been working.
A witness had contacted police this week after seeing images of the man they
had nicknamed the “Bob the Builder Bandit” in the media. The witness said
the man resembled Conyers: https://tinyurl.com/y8c8mpjl
Conyers was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of robbery.
On Thursday, a judge ordered him held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
http://komonews.com/news/local/bob-the-builder-robber-arrested
Inslee, during a news conference Thursday, defended his decision to commute
Conyers’ sentence.
“It was a decision based on the information we had now and but I’ll tell you
what I feel right now, for somebody to get a second chance like that and to
blow it,” Inslee said. “That’s maddening.” https://tinyurl.com/ybvw2m4d
It's not because of
A. Racism
B. A prison pipeline
C. A national slave industry
Or any of the other garbage that the Left claims. It's because it's a good
way to lower crime rates by locking up repeat offenders. Here's what
happened when Governor Jay Inslee decided to bypass them and commuted the
sentence of a repeat offender.
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SEATTLE - When David Conyers was led away from a King County courtroom more
than 20 years ago he was never to be a free man again.
Convicted in a string of convenience-store robberies throughout Seattle,
Conyers became the 29th person in the state sentenced to life under the
three-strikes-you’re-out law. He was just 21 when he was turned over to the
Department of Corrections - at the time the youngest three-striker in the
state.
In 2015 he was given a second chance, in the form of a commutation by Gov.
Jay Inslee: https://tinyurl.com/yal7laxe
But freedom was short-lived.
On Wednesday a team of Seattle police detectives showed up at United
Recycling, the Georgetown plant where Conyers has been working.
A witness had contacted police this week after seeing images of the man they
had nicknamed the “Bob the Builder Bandit” in the media. The witness said
the man resembled Conyers: https://tinyurl.com/y8c8mpjl
Conyers was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of robbery.
On Thursday, a judge ordered him held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
http://komonews.com/news/local/bob-the-builder-robber-arrested
Inslee, during a news conference Thursday, defended his decision to commute
Conyers’ sentence.
“It was a decision based on the information we had now and but I’ll tell you
what I feel right now, for somebody to get a second chance like that and to
blow it,” Inslee said. “That’s maddening.” https://tinyurl.com/ybvw2m4d