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Wow: Jena 6 Defendant Mychael Bell Sentenced to Jail
October 12th, 2007
Just yesterday, October the 11th; Mychael Bell was sentenced to 18 months by the same Judge who was overruled in claiming that he had adult jurisdiction on some of the charges in the school beating, and who tried to keep Bell locked up without bail even after all his convictions were vacated by the 3rd Circuit Court.
J.P. Mauffrey sentenced bail on a violation of probation from juvenile convictions that Bell incurred before the December 2006 fight with Justin Barker that led to attempted murder and conspiracy charges by extra-zealous prosecutor Reed Walters.
It’s unknown specifically on what basis a probation violation was determined, and with it being a juvenile case, details are hard to come by as no one is really allowed to talk about it.
It seems that after Mauffrey and Walters were defeated on trying to illegally convict Bell as an adult, and then keep him imprison indefinitely without a conviction, they’ve trumped up a way to get him regardless, and show the world that they’ll damn well do what they want to do.
Bell is now sentenced to a juvenile “detention center”. He’s already done 9 months in adult prison and doesn’t seem to be getting any credit for time already served. I think it’s clear that the prosecutor and the Judge have a vendetta, and are going to do anything they can to keep this young man imprisoned.
This seems to be a Moby Dick story, where Captain Ahab pursues a whale to the ends of the earth for revenge. A repeat of the Hurricane Rubin Carter story as portrayed in the 1999 movie The Hurricane, where a low down Trenton New Jersey cop arrest and gets a conviction on Carter at 12 and then he and the state legal apparatus spend the next 30 years forging fraudulent charges against Carter and doing everything they can to keep him in prison, no matter the evidence, to satisfy a racist grudge and to get stripes on the uniforms of their careers.
More on the Jena Six, and regular updates at The Jena 6 Blog
CNN story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/11/bell.jail/index.html
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It seems this needs to be reviewed at the federal level…this is clearly an act of defiance.
This is definitely an act of defiance.