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Steven Allen Butler, 28, a Houston shoeshine man, faced a grim future. Butler, already on probation for an indecency conviction involving a seven-year-old girl, confronted a possible life sentence for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old neighbor. Last week a Texas judge approved Butler's request to be...
Q. In just three years on the superior-court bench here in Visalia ((a town of 80,000 situated 181 miles north of Los Angeles)), you've got into a lot of trouble because of your so-called creative sentencing. You've made defendants quit smoking, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings...
A. We don't do that. Yes, these sentences are coercive. But so is going to prison. Which is more coercive -- losing your car or going to prison? Understand, none of these defendants have to accept these terms and conditions of probation. You can say, "Judge, I don't accept...
A. Would it have been better simply to lock her up? In my heart, I felt it was compassionate. She was flunking parenting. She needed help. She needed to take care of the child she was bearing and to complete the conditions of her probation. I thought if there was...
Still on probation for two separate weapon and cocaine possession convictions in 1990, John Padilla, 20, was hired last July by the HSC Security company as a guard at Carle Place High School on New York's Long Island. Now he is accused of firing 16 shots from a 9...