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ACTIVIST JUDGE MARK HAYES SENTENCES SPARTANBURG TEEN TO TWO CENTURIES IN PRISON FOR ROBBERY, BURGLARY
I’m not exactly a Constitutional law scholar, but I’m pretty sure that sentencing a 19-year-old kid to nearly 200 years in prison for a couple of robbery and burglary charges might not gel so well with the Eighth Amendment.
So I’m guessing Cory Demond Linder, who sentenced to 196 years behind bars after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree burglary, one count of second-degree burglary, two counts of armed robbery and one count of possession of a pistol during a violent crime, will have a pretty good case for a reduced sentence when his case is appealed.
[Deputy Solicitor Barry Barnette] said Circuit Judge J. Mark Hayes II sentenced Linder to three 40-year sentences on the first degree burglary charges, two 30-year sentences for the armed robbery charges, a 15-year sentence for the second-degree burglary charge and another year-long sentence on the possession charge.
“The sentence should send a message to all criminals that this type of criminal activity will not be tolerated in Spartanburg County,” Barnette said.
Linder’s sentences will run consecutively and must serve 85 percent of the sentence before he is eligible for release, Barnette said. [Fox Carolina]
According to all the lawyer shows I watch on TV, when someone pleads guilty they are given some leniency. I bet if this kid had plead not guilty and been convicted, Hayes would have probably sent him to a flooded gas chamber with man-eating sharks, piranhas, crocodiles, water moccasins and the bird flu.
But on the upside, if this sentence isn’t reduced and he doesn’t get any time off for good behavior, Linder will get out of prison in the year 2204, which will be only a decade or so after the Genetic Plague kills 99.9 percent of the male human population on Earth and its off-world colonies, if the webcomic Angels 2200 is to be believed.
The craziest part of all this though, is that Hayes is the same activist judge who tried to shut down Attorney General Henry McMaster’s Internet Crimes Against Children last August. This guy must really, really hate kids.
The difference between concurrent and consecutive sentences is a subtle word but an important one. Some court observers heard the court impose a consecutive sentence but the reality is that the sentence was concurrent. This means the defendant received a 40-year sentence and not the 196-year sentence referenced in this and other media accounts. The crimes committed by this defendant were extremely serious and the sentence, in our judgment, was appropriate based on the facts of the case. The sentence was not, however, 196 years.
Murray Glenn
7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office
So someone who takes lives is given less time in prison than some one who commits robberies. That is so not appropriate and yes it was 196 years. With people like you judging lives, it makes the world a lot more scarer
You should be put in prison for even having that state of mind. You guys commit crimes everyday when you steal money from citizens. From your bogus taxes to your kineiving ways, you are out to get people. Someone who makes that their job really has serious issues.