6 months in prison folowed by 12 months supervised release, too harsh?

Vladenschlutte
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:01:57 +0000

So now this guy will be hard to employ because he has a prison record.

According to the article, he has a misdemeanor, not a felony.

This sounds like a get kicked out of school, get 100 hours of community service kind of crime to me. Obviously what he did isn’t good, but prison time is inappropriate in my opinion. And when I say that I’m saying it with the belief that he was intending to intimidate the collective black students at the university. As far as I can tell, he admitted that he intended to do that.

I think the student should appeal this as well. Virginia v. Black (the cross burning case) requires a specific intent to intimidate someone, which is questionable here.

He plead to it, which should mean if I understand correctly that he allocuted to the crime he was charged with, meaning he admitted to intending to intimidate someone. Can that be appealed?