71 days jail time for a $3.25 theft.

[Baitball Blogger]

And, yet, the FBI and State Attorneys know that red, local governments use acts of malfeasance to induce support for their programs, and nothing happens.

$3.25 ice-cream theft lands man in jail for 71 days

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to the 71 days he spent in jail after stealing a $3.25 ice-cream sundae.

Court records show that Tobias Franklin also was ordered to pay restitution.

Franklin pleaded no contest May 29 to robbery by sudden snatching — a third-degree felony — and resisting merchandise recovery.

On March 20, he ordered the sundae at Goff's Ice Cream on Orange Blossom Trail near Church Street. When the shop owner told him the price, Franklin grabbed the dish from the man's hand and left.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-ice-cream-theft-jail-sentence-20130617,0,5499092.story

[monmouth3]

1. I think (not sure, mind you) that the 71 days has more to do with the prison contractor making

his money instead of justice being served. Sixty days and over $$$...

[Aerows]

2. Is it okay to say that the criminal justice department is selective and flawed

or is that only reserved for people that don't like Snowden's revelations? Just asking, because it's very murky at this point.

[forthemiddle]

3. for his second conviction

he was convicted in 2011 for burglary.

It's not the Judges fault that some people never learn........

[ohiosmith]

4. Don't do the crime,......

if you can't do the time!

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Running off with a $3 ice cream dish is a FELONY?

[msanthrope]

7. The manner of the theft is. Since I don't have the exact statute in front of me I can only opine

that the taking from the shopkeeper's hand is akin to battery.

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. Wow, that's a real stretch. That law must have been designed for black people.

The law is the law, I know, but I prefer laws that are congruent with that thing called justice. This is an unjust law.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Hopefully he learned a valuable lesson (nt)

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[Gormy Cuss]

9. Yes! He learned that stealing an ice cream got him 3 hots and a cot for 71 days

which to someone with no fixed address may have been an improvement in his standard of living.

Once he's out maybe he can steal a candy bar and get six months in jail next time.

[malaise]

8. Serve him right

Next time he'll work with a bank and steal people's homes, get rich and never even face charges