07-11-2005, 12:15 PM
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Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
Man gets 99 years for cellphone theft
12:08 PM CDT on Monday, July 11, 2005
Associated Press
WACO, Texas - A man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for stealing a cellphone.
Glenn Alvin Reed, 31, was convicted of robbery Thursday for stealing a cellular phone from a man's truck last fall and then hitting him several times when he demanded its return.
Jurors, who deliberated about 15 minutes, convicted Reed as a habitual criminal because he has prior felony convictions for injury to an elderly person and robbery. That bumped the minimum sentence from five to 25 years for Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors.
Reed also has 15 misdemeanor convictions dating to 1991, including 12 criminal trespassing convictions.
Reed, who testified during his trial against the wishes of his court-appointed attorneys, frequently went into profanity-laced tirades and told jurors he didn't care if they gave him life in prison.
"There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog."
Four years ago, Reed walked up behind retired Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Prince outside the McLennan County courthouse annex and said he was robbing him. Prince decided not to shoot Reed because he could tell he was unarmed, the former Ranger testified during Reed's cell phone robbery trial.
Prince easily took Reed into custody, and he later was sentenced to two years in prison, according to court records.
Reed made an obscene hand gesture toward Prince as the former Ranger left the witness stand.
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07-11-2005, 12:16 PM
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RE: Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
BTW...this is easily one of the top 10 stupidest people I have ever heard of in my life. What a dumbass.
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07-11-2005, 12:18 PM
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RE: Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
i'm a eat it, and go about my business, dog!
waco juries rule. waco inhabitants drool. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
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07-11-2005, 12:20 PM
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RE: Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
hahahaha ...now he's a bend over and take it all beeyatch dog.
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07-11-2005, 12:34 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
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.........Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors
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He'd probably like a do-over on that one.
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07-11-2005, 12:38 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
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Reed, who testified during his trial against the wishes of his court-appointed attorneys, frequently went into profanity-laced tirades and told jurors he didn't care if they gave him life in prison.
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HA! I wonder if he still doesn't care.
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07-11-2005, 12:53 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
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Originally posted by: mary
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.........Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors
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He'd probably like a do-over on that one.
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I dunno...sounds like he might be happy to have someone to feed, clothe, and shelter him for the rest of his life. Probably a good gig, the way he looks at it. Beats stealing for your meals, anyway.
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07-11-2005, 01:27 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
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.........Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors
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He'd probably like a do-over on that one.
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I dunno...sounds like he might be happy to have someone to feed, clothe, and shelter him for the rest of his life. Probably a good gig, the way he looks at it. Beats stealing for your meals, anyway.
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Perhaps one day the constant threat of physical/sexual abuse from fellow inmates/guards will change his perspective on life.
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"I don't know what went wrong," said guard Thabo Sefolosha. "It's hard to talk about it."
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07-11-2005, 05:01 PM
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RE: Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
Hungry?! ... why wait? Just keep it real.
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07-12-2005, 08:25 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
I was in Waco yesterday. Good thing I paid for my diet coke. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
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07-12-2005, 11:02 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
I know this is a nutcase who probably won't change soon, but 99 years. Jesus! Didn't even kill anyone.
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“He’s always around 23 or 24,” West said. “The bell rings every day.”
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07-13-2005, 01:03 AM
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RE: Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
That's why I love living in Waco.
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07-13-2005, 10:49 AM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
OMG, that guy is hilarious - and incarcerated for life! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
Next, let's try at least that harsh of a sentence on some of the sex offenders and batterers - that's what I'm talking about. Texas needs to get with the program!
Gotta love those Waco jury members!
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07-13-2005, 11:50 AM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
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Next, let's try at least that harsh of a sentence on some of the sex offenders and batterers - that's what I'm talking about.
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Smiles does her best Kip Dynamite impersonation...... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
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07-14-2005, 04:33 PM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
What a dumb@$$. Anyone that stupid deserves to be locked up for life.
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07-16-2005, 04:33 AM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
This bastard should live in Waco!!
What a dumbass
By ALLISON SCHLESINGER, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago
PITTSBURGH - A T-ball coach allegedly paid one of his players $25 to hurt an 8-year-old mentally disabled teammate so he wouldn't have to put the boy in the game, police said Friday.
Mark R. Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, is accused of offering one of his players the money to hit the boy in the head with a baseball, police said. Witnesses told police Downs didn't want the boy to play in the game because of his disability.
Police said the boy was hit in the head and in the groin with a baseball just before a game, and didn't play, police said.
"The coach was very competitive," state police Trooper Thomas B. Broadwater said. "He wanted to win."
Downs has an unpublished telephone number and couldn't immediately be reached for comment Friday. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.
He was arrested and arraigned Friday on charges including criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault and corruption of minors. He was released from jail on an unsecured bond.
The alleged assault happened June 27 in North Union Township, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, authorities said.
The boy's mother asked state police to investigate her son's injuries because she suspected Downs wanted to keep the boy off the field, despite a league rule that required each player to participate in three innings a game, Broadwater said.
Eric Forsythe, the president of the R.W. Clark Youth Baseball League, said Downs had two daughters on the T-ball team.
League organizers investigated accusations against Downs before the T-ball season ended earlier this month but could not prove that he did anything wrong. If Downs is convicted of any crime, he won't be allowed to be a coach next year, Forsythe said. The league is not affiliated with Little League International.
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07-16-2005, 05:43 AM
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RE: Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
yeah, give that man 99 years too...
let's see what happens if the other inmates don't want him to play on their team...
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At the end of each practice, the Mavs conduct a competition and ring a bell whenever someone makes 20 of 25 3-point attempts.
“He’s always around 23 or 24,” West said. “The bell rings every day.”
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07-16-2005, 08:41 AM
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RE:Waco Juries Kick Arse...I love this town
Doc, that's why I love trying cases here. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]
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