Homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100

[reject]

A homeless man robbed a Louisiana bank and took a $100 bill. After feeling remorseful, he surrendered to police the next day. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

Roy Brown, 54, robbed the Capital One bank in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 2007. He approached the teller with one of his hands under his jacket and told her that it was a robbery.

The teller handed Brown three stacks of bill but he only took a single $100 bill and returned the remaining money back to her. He said that he was homeless and hungry and left the bank.

The next day he surrendered to the police voluntarily and told them that his mother didn’t raise him that way.

Brown told the police he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry.

In Caddo District Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for first degree robbery.


meanwhile..

AIG executive sentenced to 4 years in prison
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A former executive of insurance heavyweight American International Group Inc. was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday in a fraud case that authorities say cost shareholders more than $500 million

source http://forums.homeless.org.au/showthread.php?t=3301

Justice?

[faceless]

bloody hell - that's some story. The whole point of sentencing is meant to be about how the victims have been affected and I'm pretty sure the teller at that bank wasn't exactly traumatised by it.

As for the comparison with AIG bastard, that just says it all. Apparently the thousands of innocent victims of his actions don't matter.

[Brown Sauce]

certainly not, as he took only what he needed and gave the rest back.

what sort of judge is the cretin?