Florida Cereal Stealer Gets 15 Years in Prison


	Florida Cereal Stealer Gets 15 Years in Prison

sahara

10-7-2009 9:38 PM

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sahara says:

The judge who sentenced Griffin seems to agree, but said he was bound by the law to give the reoffender the mandatory minimum.

“Personally, I think the money could have been better spent in treatment rather than incarceration for 15 years, but that is not my decision,” Bartow Judge Donald Jacobsen said. “It seems to me that treatment would be a far better resolution of this.”

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