‘Pure lunacy’ to jail this man for 20 years

[KamaAina]

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article37581678.html

The travesty imprisonment of Orville “Lee” Wollard will continue, with the blessing of Gov. Rick Scott. Last week, Scott cast the decisive vote to keep Wollard locked up for firing a warning shot after being attacked in his home by his daughter’s boyfriend. Police said the boyfriend ripped the surgical stitches from Wollard’s abdomen.

The 60-year-old first-time offender has already served about seven years of a mandatory 20-year term. A Polk County jury had convicted him of shooting into a dwelling and aggravated assault with a firearm....

Curiously, the same prosecutor who’d originally offered Wollard a deal of five years’ probation (with no prison time) told the state clemency board on Wednesday that Wollard should stay behind bars after all this time.

State Attorney Jerry Hill offered no good explanation for his 180-degree pivot, nor did Scott bother to ask how Wollard could suddenly be a menace to society when he was deemed suitable for probation before his trial.

And believe it or not, he's white!

[Angry Dragon]

1. Yet George "Killer" Zimmerman goes free and brags about it

[KamaAina]

2. Precisely.

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3. My first thought was he must be a black guy . . .

then I checked the link and he's a white guy. I was surprised but not that surprise. Don Seigelman is still in jail/

Guess in this case we have to consider that it's in Flori-duh and Scott is the governor.

[KamaAina]

4. I was going to post his picture

but the Herald uses some weird URL for its pics that DU wouldn't recognize.

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5. Do you use a code snippet to post the photo?

[KamaAina]

6. No, I just right-click on it and choose "Copy image location" (in Firefox)

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7. Thanks, that's good to know.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Guns are only good if they actually kill someone.

Murrican logic.

[Snobblevitch]

9. This is that Florida law that was passed to get tough on gun crime

Warning shots are not legal. I wonder why he did not take the plea bargain.

[NutmegYankee]

10. I'm shocked it wasn't considered Castle Doctrine. Nt