Jermain Taylor Facing Up To 54 Years in Prison

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Taylor, 37, who last fought in October 2014, winning the IBF middleweight title from Sam Soliman, is being charged for shooting his cousin, threatening a family member by firing a gun, and punching another man. Each charge is a Class D felony that carries up to six years in prison. Taylor also admitted to misdemeanor marijuana possession, a crime that can carry up to a year in prison, but will not add any time to any prison sentence he might receive.

Taylor faces up to 54 years in prison and will be sentenced on April 19.
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SOURCE: http://openinground.com/article/former-middleweight-champion-faces-54-years-prison/
 
I was OK with the whole thing until I read he possessed marijuana. Lock this guy up.
 
Shael said:
The root of all evil.
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When I heard Taylor was terrorizing people with guns, my first thought was that he was probably on the pot.
 
Damn...

It was all because he lost to white boys...
 
What are the chances this is linked to being punch drunk?
 
SuperLuigi said:
What are the chances this is linked to being punch drunk?
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I know you're joking. However, it's conceivable that a defense could be made based on traumatic brain injury from a long boxing career, if they can prove he is not all there in the head. Just saying.
 
is being charged for
[1]shooting his cousin,
[2] threatening a family member by firing a gun,
[3] and punching another man.

Each charge is a Class D felony that carries up to six years in prison.

Taylor faces up to 54 years in prison and will be sentenced on April 19.
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Maybe some information is missing.
I would have guessed 3 * 6 = 18.
It seems the writer of the article went with 3 * 18 = 54.
 
Area809 said:
I know you're joking. However, it's conceivable that a defense could be made based on traumatic brain injury from a long boxing career, if they can prove he is not all there in the head. Just saying.
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Why is this construed as a joke? Chris Benoit murdering his family was linked to brain trauma.
 
Area809 said:
I know you're joking. However, it's conceivable that a defense could be made based on traumatic brain injury from a long boxing career, if they can prove he is not all there in the head. Just saying.
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That's most likely what's gonna happen.
 
fightingrabbit said:
Why is this construed as a joke? Chris Benoit murdering his family was linked to brain trauma.
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And a few former boxers were the only athletes found to have comparable brain damage to Benoit. Indeed my comment was not in jest.
 
AppliedScience said:
Maybe some information is missing.
I would have guessed 3 * 6 = 18.
It seems the writer of the article went with 3 * 18 = 54.
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Each action is multiple counts.. they are sticking him

I think it's fucked up.. He deserves to go to jail, but you can actually kill somebody and get less time than he got..and he could get.. which is completely fucked... Our legal system is fucked.. You can molest a kid and get 3 years.. you can rob a store with a candy bar and get 20... what's worse?
 
Go figure, a guy addicted to pots doing reckless things. Cant believe we are trying to legalize such a harmful drug.
 
Black Angus said:
Go figure, a guy addicted to pots doing reckless things. Cant believe we are trying to legalize such a harmful drug.
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Can't tell if you are serious or not...

I don't smoke.. but I have when I was younger.. the effect is much less than alcohol.. it makes no sense to have alcohol legal and weed not legal.. It's a form of socialism to have it illegal... because we have to pool our funds to lock the people that smoke up.. bunch of socialists we are
 
Can you imagine being released in the year 2070 at the age of 90 and witness how everything has changed?
 
Cracky said:
Can't tell if you are serious or not...

I don't smoke.. but I have when I was younger.. the effect is much less than alcohol.. it makes no sense to have alcohol legal and weed not legal.. It's a form of socialism to have it illegal... because we have to pool our funds to lock the people that smoke up.. bunch of socialists we are
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Lol is everyone's sarcasm meter broken today or what.

And before you answer, a sarcasm meter is not an actual object.
 
korean blood said:
That's most likely what's gonna happen.
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Not possible. They won't use a brain trauma defense or any other defense for that matter. He plead guilty. All that is left is for the judge to decide his punishment. The judge's staff will review his medical history themselves though.
 
Cracky said:
Each action is multiple counts.. they are sticking him

I think it's fucked up.. He deserves to go to jail, but you can actually kill somebody and get less time than he got..and he could get.. which is completely fucked... Our legal system is fucked.. You can molest a kid and get 3 years.. you can rob a store with a candy bar and get 20... what's worse?
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Did you read all the things he actually did? He is getting off easy because in exchange for the guilty plea the prosecutor is allowing a judge to determine his punishment rather then a jury and knocking off an added 10 year sentence for committing crimes in front of children.

Here are some highlights.

• Aug. 26, 2014, second-degree battery and terroristic threatening for shooting Hinton and threatening the life of his son, Aharon Coley of Little Rock, at Taylor's 39-acre estate outside North Little Rock and Maumelle.

Prosecutors said the men argued about Taylor's training and that the boxer went into his house, got a gun, went back outside and started shooting at the men, injuring Hinton, of Jacksonville.

• Jan. 17, terroristic threatening and five counts of aggravated assault for putting a gun to the head of Thelton Pegro Smith and firing the weapon around Smith's wife and three children just after Little Rock's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. parade. Taylor had gotten angry after one of the Smith children, who had been allowed to hold Taylor's championship belt, dropped it. The incident occurred in the 1700 block of Wright Avenue where Taylor owns a gym. He had a small amount of marijuana in his pocket when police arrested him.

• May 13, second-degree battery for inflicting serious injury on Jason Isaac Condon while the men were in a drug rehabilitation program. Condon was knocked unconscious and suffered facial fractures. The men had been sharing a cabin at the Oasis Renewal Center on Cooper Orbit Road in Little Rock.


After all that shit it's still possible the judge could just give him probation so lets not feel too sorry for him.
 
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