Flip off duh jedge, flip off duh jedge

[DesertFox]

A Georgia man gave the middle finger to a judge who sentenced him to life in prison plus 40 years for the shooting death of a Savannah debutante during a botched robbery.

Michael Thorpe, 26, gestured and shouted "F--- democracy!" as deputies led him Saturday from the courtroom where Chatham County Superior Court Judge Penny Haas Freeseman sentenced him for shooting Jennifer Ross on Christmas Eve 2005.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/LAW/12/18/debutante.murder/vert.thorpe.ap.jpg
Michael Thorpe, 26, cursed and raised
his middle finger at the judge as he
was sentenced to life plus 40 years


Ross, a 19-year-old Mercer University student who had attended her debutante ball earlier that evening, died on the operating table one week later from a sudden ruptured artery.

Thorpe's co-defendant, Kevin Huckabee, 21, also shouted and cursed after Freeseman sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years as a party to the crime for driving the getaway car.

Co-defendant Webster Wilson, 25, simply glanced at his mother after he was also sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years as a party to the crime.

The jury of five men and seven women deliberated for 17 hours over three days.

More (http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/18/debutante.murder/index.html)

[Incident_command]

No,:finger: you. Time to go to prison never to be a burden to society again. Bubba and Leroy are looking forward to your arrival.

[Federal Farmer]

I'd rather see the scum deeped-6; But what are you going to do?

Oh, and when he yelled his profanity, they should have said "hold that thought while we get you a mirror."

[Incident_command]

I'd rather see the scum deeped-6; But what are you going to do?
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Yep take what you can get with our legal system.

[Federal Farmer]

I like the "plus 40 years" and "plus 30 years" though. Guess the judge kinda said fugga youa first. :D

[DesertFox]

Fieda been the judge think I'da flipped the bastard off right back, one in each hand, with a smug little smirk. Time he serves life, which is usually 25 years, and then gets started on the plus 40, he might rue the day he went a-killin' just fer the funnuvvit.

[DeclinetoState]

Why weren't three clowns given the death penalty?

They convicted the defendants of felony murder, but acquitted them of the top charge of malice murder, which requires a finding that the defendants planned and committed the crime with "an abandoned or malignant heart," according to Georgia law.
I take it "malice murder" was required for a death sentence?

[Riverboat]

A Georgia man gave the middle finger to a judge who sentenced him to life in prison plus. . . Boy, I'll bet that showed HIM! HAH! Put me in prison, will you? I'll jes shoot dis yar finger atcha! Down wit da MAN!

F*****g moron.

[DeclinetoState]

Would these acts by any chance be considered "hate crimes"?

[Wolfcounsel]

"I take it "malice murder" was required for a death sentence?" --DeclinetoState

Oh, just ask any dumba-, er, uh, I mean, liberal. They'll tell you some murderers don't really feel good about killing people in cold blood.

[DoctorDoom]

Oh, just ask any dumba-, er, uh, I mean, liberal. They'll tell you some murderers don't really feel good about killing people in cold blood.Well, ya gots ta unnerstan' dat it's all society's fault, and dat if it wuzn't for dem f'in' racist white crackas, de bruthas would be choir boys. Word, dawg!