Kill someone, get out of prison in ten years. Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green once again gave a convicted murderer a light sentence. Catch and release on the deferred plan.
A Hinds County grand jury indicted Robert Decatur for first degree murder and shooting into a vehicle in 2015. A witness testified Decatur fired into the rear of a vehicle. Video showed Decatur shot the victim in the back of the head. Decatur confessed to killing the victim but claimed it was done in self-defense. The case finaaaaally went to trial in August. A jury convicted Decatur of second degree murder.
However, this being Judge Tomie Green's courtroom, it was Decatur's lucky day. Judge Green sentenced Decatur to serve thirty years in prison but suspended twenty years of the sentence. He only has to serve ten years in prison before he is sprung.
Almost reminds one of the Eric Hambrick case.
17 comments:
vote her out.
I was an assistant DA, before my children came. Most of my $20 rock, drug sale defendants did more time.
Few people have done more to increase crime in Jackson than Tommie Green. VOTE HER OUT!
GREEN MUST GO!!!!!
For the people saying "vote her out" --
She was a member of the House of Representatives for years before being elected circuit judge.
Do you people really think the people who keep re-electing her want he to do anything differently?
Going easy on thugs and murderers is just sticking it to the Man, people.
Wake up.
Judges like Tomie Green make a great case for vigilante justice.
Judge Green sounds like the typical Trump supporter. No worry about murderers or rapists as long as their skin is the right color. Sad.
You would think the judicial performance board would get her off the bench. Before you yell she's an elected official, they took an elected JC judge that slapped a kid in Canton off the bench. It took the about a year to get it done but they did it.
12:36 - I've been asleep for six months. Can you tell me the names of murderers and rapists your president has excused from their crimes. Thanks. RS
What was the basis of his self defense claim? Was it truly self defense? Did the DA make a recommendation of ten years during sentencing or did they leave it to the judge’s discretion?
Citizens of Jackson and Hinds County get what they deserve by continuing to elect the likes of Bennie Thompson, Judge Green, Baby Chock, Robert Schuler (sp?) Smith, and Victor Mason.
The courts don't work.
The water system does not work.
The police are understaffed and unsupported.
The HCSO is a joke.
JPS does not work.
The streets are a mess.
You all are doing great. Keep them in their government jobs with no accountability. If just one or two would be turned out of office maybe there would a slim chance of a turn around.
Just sayin'.
@3:40 - Its hard to imagine the basis of a self-defense claim when the victim is shot in the back of the head!
To add to what 3:55 posted: Yesterday I had occasion to take some items to the Salvation Army headquarters on State Street. My God at the roads! Had not been in that area for a year or two. County Line south all the way to Northside, several miles of bombed out infrastructure.
When I left Salvation Army, I headed south on State to Northside Drive in order to get on the interstate. My Lord! The streets are worse than in Iraq or Felusia. Negotiating orange cones, one way lanes, potholes deep and wide, barricades. The whole place is a mad house of crumbling inattention and neglect. Third World! Is there any such thing as 'fourth world'?
Vote for Kimalon Campbell
3:55 -
The courts work EXACTLY the way a majority of Jackson’s citizens want them to work.
Otherwise they’d do something to change it.
They want criminals freed. Jails and laws are inherently racist.
When I win the lottery Tuesday, I intend to buy an island & leave Jackson.
BUT THEY WON'T LET DANIEL CUMMINS OUT EARLY!!??
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