<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sunil,</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I hate to disagree with you, but. This "scared" 14 year old boy had no moral problems with opening fire with a rifle on vehicles driving up and down a highway. Is he scared because of what he admittedly did or because he has to spend 30 days in the jug? And if Juvenile probation didn't describe them as very violent, what would very violent be if opening fire with a rifle on traffic randomly isn't very violent? Would they have had to actually kill someone? IF opening fire on at least nine vehicles isn't very violent, would shooting ten? Fifteen?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">And I totally agree with you that the readers on the list are "not </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">fully knowledgeable". Why aren't we fully knowledgeable? WHO is it that we elect is supposed to inform us?</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">The public officials can't say "You don't know all the facts in this case" and then refuse to inform the public what those facts are! The electorate shouldn't have to beg for information!</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Not too recently this country invaded Iraq after being told by the federal government, "You don't know all the facts in this case". And we now know after bankrupting this country</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">that the reasons for that war was totally bogus and the federal government flat out LIED. </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Well, now we have the same line being fed to us by the local elected government in regards to the local criminal justice situation.... Where does it stop?</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Janesta,<br><br>With all due respect, the judge had access not only to the police reports in the case but also the report prepared by the juvenile probation office. That latter investigates the incident, the juvenile's prior history, his family, mental, physical, and substance abuse history. It provides a better look at the juvenile than anyone here has had. I'll wager it didn't describe either of them as 'very violent.'<br><br>Safety of the community is almost always the first thing a judge looks at. "Disrespect to the citizens of Latah County," whatever that means, is not on the list of sentencing goals, and a good thing too. To me that looks more like an invitation to letting the mob decide than justice.<br><br>As someone who's represented clients in front of him for almost a decade, and occasionally prosecuted them in front of him before that, I can say that 'Bleeding heart' are two words not used in the same sentence as 'Judge Calhoun.'<br><br>A right to be upset, Tom? Maybe thirty days is nothing to you. I daresay it's a little different to a scared 14 year-old boy. Am I implying you're not fully knowledgeable, I would hope it's more explicit than that. You're not. You know you're not, or at least you ought to know it.<br><br>Poor Bill Thompson; asks to send the boys to juvie prison and yet gets ripped here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Sunil<br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:11:13 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Deary Teens Sentenced<br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com">janesta@gmail.com</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a><br>CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br><br>With all due respect, Sunil. This punishment sets a terrible example to the next teen who takes it upon themselves to turn Highway 8 into their own personal video game.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The judge showed disrespect to the citizens of Latah County, and no regard for our safety with this sentence. For shame.<br><br>Janesta<br><br><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Sunil Ramalingam<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; "><div>Clearly the two of you know all there is to know about the boys and the case, more than the judge who dealt with them.<br><br>Sunil<br><br></div></blockquote></div>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>