grude
September 14, 2012, 8:38pm
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Why is a guy that raped and murdered a woman on the street?!?!?
But drug crimes get 20+ year sentences easy, I mean what the flying fuck? How is life in fucking prison not the standard for rapist murderers, how can violent rapists get less than a decade in prison?
Accused of, but never convicted. Your initially linked story did not accurately tell the whole story.
Mitchell’s disturbing criminal history began when he was just 18 and charged with molesting and beating to death 87-year-old Annie Parks during a burglary in his hometown of Jenkinjones near the border of Kentucky and Virginia.
A jury acquitted him , and months later he was accused of raping a woman in her 70s during another break-in, the Charleston Gazette reported.
(Bolding mine.) Drifter nabbed in rape of 73-year-old woman in Central Park has disturbing criminal history – New York Daily News
Yorikke
September 14, 2012, 11:23pm
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I disagree. I read the OP’s link, and understood it. The OP did not, apparently.
grude
September 14, 2012, 11:33pm
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You both are right, here is the section I misread:
Mitchell's disturbing criminal history began when he was just 18 and charged with molesting and beating to death 87-year-old Annie Parks during a burglary in his hometown of Jenkinjones near the border of Kentucky and Virginia. [...]
After his release, the ex-con was arrested at least twice more before being convicted of kidnapping in 2003 and sent back to prison for eight more years.
I read that as implying the conviction was connected to the earlier charges.
