All I can say is WOW... 7-Cent Robbery, Assault Lands Teen With Up to 4-Year Prison Sentence A 16-year-old Syracuse boy has been sentenced to up to four years in state prison for beating and kicking a 73-year-old man in a robbery that netted the teen and his accomplice a whopping 7 cents. The NY Daily reports that on December 22nd, 2010, Skyler Ninham and Anthony Stewart, 15, carried out their crime in which they knocked the elderly victim to the ground, kicked him in the head, punched him in the face -breaking his glasses – and then robbed him of just 7 cents – the only money the man had on him at the time. While the victim testified the youths were both armed with real weapons – one appeared to be a revolver and the other a shotgun, he stated – during the assualt, Stewart later admitted in a confession that the weapons were BB guns. Ninham, who pleaded guilty in July, was sentenced to one to four years in state prison with youthful offender treatment removing the felony conviction from his record. Stewart, on the other hand, decided to fight the case and was found guilty of first-degree robbery by a jury Onondaga County Judge William Walsh said on Monday that he decided to throw the book at Anthony Stewart, because the teen didn’t plead guilty to the crime which he reportedly implicated himself in during an earlier police confession. Walsh, pointing out that the victim fingered both Stewart and Ninham in the crime, spoke to the 15-year-old saying “and yet you still denied it. Well, that cost you.” Stewart’s lawyer, Laurin Haddad, said after the sentencing that she was disappointed with Walsh’s decision to reject her plea to treat the boy as a youthful offender. The judge’s decision means the felony conviction will remain on Stewart’s permanent record. “For 7 cents, now you’re making someone a felon for the rest of his life,” Haddad said. What is our world turning into...:( |
The judge’s decision means the felony conviction will remain on Stewart’s permanent record. “For 7 cents, now you’re making someone a felon for the rest of his life,” Haddad said. What is our world turning into...:([/QUOTE] It is infuriating that the boy's lawyer would be upset with the Judge. He threw the book at him because the client refused to admit his role in the assault. He was given a chance for a reduced sentence which the other boy accepted. Her client just thought he could get away with it if he contested she should have advised him otherwise. It was not the judge who made him into a felon over 7 cents it was the boy himself. Hopefully he will learn his lesson now. I have no sympathy for any teen who would beat and rob an elderly man or anyone for that matter. That is my 2 cents. |
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I seriously think that is what is wrong with society, noone wants to pay the price of their actions. No one is responsible for their actions anymore! Its so sad! I, for one, DO NOT feel bad for those boys. At 15 years old they both should know you don't beat up and rob an old man, no matter how much you got out of it, that part is inconsequential! :( At least he'll be back out in a year to 4 years to either clean up his act, or wind up in prison a lot longer. Clearly he has issues already! |
Oh my, that is awful! |
really really stupid act on the boy's part and they deserve exactly what they got! maybe they'll actually learn a lesson here. |
I think someone like this should be locked up and put away. If he can do what he did, there's no telling of what else he's capable of. Better safe than sorry. |
Disgusting typical tabloid headline! Doesn't matter the amount of cash the kid got...7 cents or 7 grand...he beat down an old man and earned his sentence. |
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That lawyer should have her bar card revoked!!!!! The amount of the robbery isn't even the point, the robbers had no idea what they would net from their crime, and to attack an elderly man, just disgusting. Glad the judge was hard on them, GOOD:thumbup: We need more like him! |
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