Judge Delay's Teen's Sentence Until AFTER Football Season (Caused a crash)

[matcom]

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KENTON, Ohio — As the players took to the Wildcat practice field yesterday and started tossing around footballs, you couldn’t actually see the controversy swirling around them.

But you sure could feel it.

It seemed everyone in town was debating the fairness of a judge’s decision Tuesday to allow two convicted high-school athletes to delay a juvenile-detention stay until after football season.

The teens placed a decoy deer on a dark road in November. When a car crashed while trying to avoid it, two people were severely injured. Driver Robert Roby is now physically disabled; his teenage passenger, Dustin Zachariah, is brain damaged. Three other teens still have court cases pending.

"It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard," said bartender Doris Legge as she served cans of beer to a half-dozen people gathered in The Bar. "The judge said ‘Hey, go play ball, have fun and don’t worry.’ What kind of punishment is that?"

Across town at Finney Glass and Paint, self-appointed town sage and business owner Bill Furbush saw things differently.

"I think the judge made the right decision," he said. "Letting the kids play will help them, and the coach will take the kids down the right path."

Some juvenile-justice experts said that while they know such cases evoke emotional opinions, people shouldn’t be too quick to second-guess the judge.

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http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/08/17/20060817-A1-02.html

[Jokerman]

1. Jocks getting preferential treatment? No way! n/t

[UrbScotty]

7. I'm just as shocked as you!

:eyes:

[1gobluedem]

2. This bodes well for them as future OSU football players

They'll fit right in.

[RedCloud]

3. They shoot hippies there, don't they?

Just asking...

[jakefrep]

4. No wonder pro athletes have a warped sense of entitlement. nt

[Darth_Kitten]

5. Let's stop coddling worthless, conscienceless idiots............

that's the problem in this world....oh, poor guys, let's give them a chance. (like they gave their victims a chance?)

Sorry, they gave up any right to be giving "chances". Let them go through life WITHOUT scholarships, Mommy and Daddy buying and giving them everything, and let them take a full hard lessons in life. Maybe, just MAYBE they will then learn something about human compassion.

Punks need to be locked up for a long time.

[ComerPerro]

6. Nothing new, but still an outrage