“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“
For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:
Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.
After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.
Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!
#StayWoke
The parole board split on whether Cyntoia should be granted clemency. /BillHaslam can still grant her clemency before he leaves in January. You can reach him at: phone #: (615) 741-2001; e-mail: bill.haslam@tn.gov
Jemel Roberson was the “good guy with a gun” they keep telling us are the best defense against mass shootings, and now he’s dead because he had a legal, warranted gun in his hand.
NRA and Trump have not commented. Trump is busy trying to make Macron look bad on Twitter after he said nationalism is the opposite of patriotism (complete with, no shit, a “Make France Great Again” tweet).
Not to mention, this bar shooting at a predominantly Black bar was barely news until social media jumped on it. Granted, it doesn’t qualify as a mass shooting as there was just one fatality – Jemel.
The silence from pro-gun advocates only reinforces what we already know: The 2nd Amendment only applies to white people.
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