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Comments :: N.C. Supreme Court hears 'life' sentences dispute

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I love holmesap's comment. These criminals need to rot in jail. Good behavior my bottom dollar. What is the criminal recidivism rate these days? Let's just save ourselves (the taxpayers) lots of money and end this insanity.

Like I said before to all you folks who just throw opinion in here - if you don't like the law petition your congressman and get the law changed. Opinion only works if you work to change what you don't like. And you know what they say about opinions and .....You know the rest! The law is screwed up, work to change it instead of bellyaching about it! We have the power to. Use it!

They deserve the same chance the patrolman had on his last day ! They have lived their life pretty much taken care of by the taxpayer and watched sports and enjoyed whatever they could get their hands on and had contact with love ones. I bet the patrolman would have loved to have that option along with his family.

I think they should bring the old prisons back. No tv, no air condition, no soft beds, ball & chain on the road work ! Let them repair the roads and clean the ditches and save the state some money. I dont believe in parole or plea bargains.

HIYADUN, THANK YOU

delilahk2000----you make a good point

THIS IS CRAZY, THEY HAVE ONE THEY ARE TRYING THEIR BEST TO KEEP IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT AND HAS SERVED 17YRS. THESE THEY DID DO THE CRIME AND CAN'T RELEASE THEM FAST ENOUGH. AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SEES SOMETHING REALLY WRONG WITH THIS. OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS REALLY MESSED UP. NO WONDER WE HAVE NO MORE FAITH IN THEM.

"We are a nation of laws, not arbitrariness, tyranny or whims," Allen said. "No one – not the (Department of Correction), not the Attorney General – can simply choose to treat the law as if it's nothing more than a series of items on the buffet line at the local Golden Corral."

REALLY Ms. Allen..so let me ask YOU something. Do you honestly believe the life of the officer whom was killed by your client merely as important to his family and the fellow officers who work along side of him as a "Buffet Line at a Local Golden Corral"? His life mean't nothing more to you and the laws he swore to uphold? Please...Ms. Allen....surely you can come up with a better arguement than that!

If you don't like the law work to have it changed. You can't change the rules in the middle of the game. I don't like criminals released before their time any more than anyone else but the law is the law. I think the Governor has overstepped her bounds in this case. She should have to follow the same procedures as anyone else. No one is above the law.

"I just checked on the State Highway Patrol website and read about Patrolman G. T. Davis, Jr., of Martin County, NC, and how he was shot to death in the line of duty after stopping a vehicle whose occupants had just robbed a bank. I'm wondering if this is the same patrolman whose death was contributed to (or caused by) Faye Brown."

Yes, this was the same patrolman. He stopped the car for running a stoplight - didn't even know they had robbed a bank. He walked up to the car and they shot him with a sawed-off shotgun. He never stood a chance. My father lost a good friend that day. Ms. Brown should not be released! If life meant 80 years, then she should serve 80 years (and that is not enough)!

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