14 year old black girl sentenced to 7 years in prison for shoving hall monitor TEXAS

[GonzoLays]

Yes folks, you read that right. And get this, the same judged sentenced another 14 year old white girl to PROBATION for arson and gave a 54 year old white man PROBATION for killing an old black lady and her granddaughter. So as we can see, this is not some crazy judge on the loose giving EVERYONE ridiculously long sentences. Only givin' dem colored folk the long prison terms.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...ck=1&cset=true

PARIS, Texas -- The public fairgrounds in this small east Texas town look ordinary enough, like so many other well-worn county fair sites across the nation. Unless you know the history of the place.

There are no plaques or markers to denote it, but several of the most notorious public lynchings of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries were staged at the Paris Fairgrounds, where thousands of white spectators would gather to watch and cheer as black men were dragged onto a scaffold, scalded with hot irons and finally burned to death or hanged.




Brenda Cherry, a local civil rights activist, can see the fairgrounds from the front yard of her modest home, in the heart of the "black" side of this starkly segregated town of 26,000. And lately, Cherry says, she's begun to wonder whether the racist legacy of those lynchings is rebounding in a place that calls itself "the best small town in Texas."

"Some of the things that happen here would not happen if we were in Dallas or Houston," Cherry said. "They happen because we are in this closed town. I compare it to 1930s."

There was the 19-year-old white man, convicted last July of criminally negligent homicide for killing a 54-year-old black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck, who was sentenced in Paris to probation and required to send an annual Christmas card to the victims' family.

There are the Paris public schools, which are under investigation by the U.S. Education Department after repeated complaints that administrators discipline black students more frequently, and more harshly, than white students.

And then there is the case that most troubles Cherry and leaders of the Texas NAACP, involving a 14-year-old black freshman, Shaquanda Cotton, who shoved a hall monitor at Paris High School in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun.

The youth had no prior arrest record, and the hall monitor--a 58-year-old teacher's aide--was not seriously injured. But Shaquanda was tried in March 2006 in the town's juvenile court, convicted of "assault on a public servant" and sentenced by Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21.

Just three months earlier, Superville sentenced a 14-year-old white girl, convicted of arson for burning down her family's house, to probation. (Just three hours earlier? Thats ****ing crazy!)

"All Shaquanda did was grab somebody and she will be in jail for 5 or 6 years?" said Gary Bledsoe, an Austin attorney who is president of the state NAACP branch. "It's like they are sending a signal to black folks in Paris that you stay in your place in this community, in the shadows, intimidated."

The Tribune generally does not identify criminal suspects younger than age 17, but is doing so in this case because the girl and her family have chosen to go public with their story.

None of the officials involved in Shaquanda's case, including the local prosecutor, the judge and Paris school district administrators, would agree to speak about their handling of it, citing a court appeal under way.

But the teen's defenders assert that long before the September 2005 shoving incident, Paris school officials targeted Shaquanda for scrutiny because her mother had frequently accused school officials of racism.

[RhymesayersDU]

That is pretty crazy.

[broncs2bowl]

Man I feel sry for that girl. People push people all the time in my school and I must admit I do too. That is just pure racism. She should be sen t to a year or so to jail too

[Malcontent]

I'm White...and that judge sucks ballz! Will this shyt never end?

[footstepsfrom#27]

East Texas is a cesspool for racial hatred. They're a hundred years behind the times there. They need to immediately remove this judge from office and salt his sorry *** away in some rotting hole for the same sentence he gave the girl. Thankfully, the sentence won't happen. The Texas Supreme Court will overide this idiot on appeal. Who knows how long the process will take however. Meanwhile she'll be in jail waiting.

Outrageous.

[GonzoLays]

The girl has tried to kill herself three times since she has been in prison. I can't even imagine what she is feeling right now.

That judge ruined a young girl's life over nothing.

[footstepsfrom#27]

Originally Posted by GonzoLays

The girl has tried to kill herself three times since she has been in prison. I can't even imagine what she is feeling right now.

That judge ruined a young girl's life over nothing.

Is she in "prison" or the TYC (Texas Youth Commission)? TYC is horrendous and one of the most dangerous youth detention facilities in the country. Kids are killed in TYC, staff attacked, all kinds of insanity. This is a good time for Jesse Jackson to do something useful for a change and get himself down here with a hoard of media at his heels.

[GonzoLays]

7 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A SHOVE!! A ****ING SHOVE!! WHAT?? AND A JUVENILE WITH NO PRIOR RECORD AT THAT!!! WHAT??

I have never in my life heard of something so preposterous. Gross misjustice is thrown around a lot, but if there was EVER A CASE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES that the punishment does not fit the crime, this is it. This is absurd.

[GonzoLays]

Originally Posted by footstepsfrom#27

Is she in "prison" or the TYC (Texas Youth Commission)? TYC is horrendous and one of the most dangerous youth detention facilities in the country. Kids are killed in TYC, staff attacked, all kinds of insanity. This is a good time for Jesse Jackson to do something useful for a change and get himself down here with a hoard of media at his heels.

Don't know the full details of the case. I would assume that she is most likely in some youth center at this point. But as you have pointed out, even the detention centers are not the place to hold young children.

I can't believe this young girl is behind bars right now.

[footstepsfrom#27]

This says it's TYC: http://www.theparisnews.com/story.la...2edc9fc0ed587d What kind of lunatic sentence a child to TYC for something that should have got a parent-teacher conference? Also, it wasn't just this moron...a jury took three freaking days to hear this case...WTF They found 12 other fools to conspire on this too I guess. They got nothing to do with thier time in this hick town. Three days to hear a case about some kid shoving a hall monitor? She should have had after school detention, at most a minor suspension....TYC? That's so far past insane it's incomprehensible.

Superville: Look at all the facts

By Mary Madewell
The Paris News

Published March 25, 2007

County Judge Chuck Superville says he fears for the community’s safety and is calling for the national media and other organizations to investigate the facts before drawing conclusions about the Shaquanda Cotton case.

The judge said a March 12 story in The Chicago Tribune unfairly painted the community as racist and a recent protest as well as the threat of future protests by organized groups with national media coverage could “spin this thing out of control.”

Superville said he has refrained from commenting until now because of his position as the judge in the Cotton case, but that he believes he has a higher duty as county judge to maintain order in the community.

“I call on the media and others involved to go to the public record to get the facts of the case before they rush to judgment,” Superville said Saturday.

Superville said after a three-day jury trial, which found that Cotton committed an act of juvenile delinquency — namely assault causing bodily injury against a public servant — he determined the best place for her would be Texas Youth Commission.

“If Shaquanda had been white, the outcome would have been the same,” Superville said. “My decision was based on facts and law and I am confident this was the correct decision based on the facts I was presented.”

The March 2006 case is on appeal with the Texarkana Court of Appeals. The court conducted a 10-hour hearing in August 2006 to consider a request that Cotton be released on bond.

The judge said Cotton could have been released at that time but would not speculate why the appellate court did not grant the bond. The judge said he presented the facts of the case and that attorneys for both the prosecution and for Cotton presented arguments.

Superville said he gave the 14-year old an indeterminate sentence up to seven years — her 21st birthday.

“Once I set the indeterminate sentence, Shaquanda holds the key to her jail cell,” Superville said. “It is up to the child and TYC.”

In explaining the juvenile process, Superville said after a jury makes it’s finding, the judge determines the disposition.

“I am bound by law to ask lawyers whether or not reasonable effort has been made to prevent or eliminate the need for the child to be removed from her home,” Superville said.

“I also must determine whether or not there is enough family support to assist the child in successfully completing terms and conditions of probation,” Superville said.

“Thirdly, I must determine whether or not it is in the child’s best interest to be removed from the home,” the judge said.

“Both lawyers presented evidence on those points,” Superville explained. “The county attorney put on a substantial amount of evidence that Shaquanda had been a persistent behavior problem at school and that the mother failed to cooperate at every turn.”

“I asked if there was anything that could be done that had not already been done and the repeated answer was ‘no,’” Superville said.

Superville said reports from Lamar County Juvenile Probation Department also weighed on his decision. Before a juvenile trial which could result in probation, the probation department conducts a fact-finding survey.

“The juvenile officer said the mother refused to cooperate and said he had no reason to believe the mother would cooperate if Shaquanda received probation,” Superville said.

“That theme was repeated witness after witness—that the mother made it impossible to help Shaquanda,” Superville said. “She blamed everyone except the child for misbehavior.”

[Ratboy]

That's racist!

All white people are racist!

Black Folks are superior and show no racism.

It's always the White man bringing this place down.

(Let's just make Gonzo happy)

[RkyMtnThunder]

I am always floored when I hear news about how backwards and outdated some parts of America still is.

[Tombstone RJ]

I agree that Jesse Jackson should get involved, or one of his constituants. Call alot of national attention to this case and the judge. That is the best way to handle it.

[footstepsfrom#27]

Originally Posted by Ratboy

That's racist!

All white people are racist!

Black Folks are superior and show no racism.

It's always the White man bringing this place down.

(Let's just make Gonzo happy)

Yeah...you're right...there's no reason to take note of a story like this is there?

[Los Broncos]

wow, how sad, i hope she makes it threw.

[Ratboy]

Originally Posted by footstepsfrom#27

Yeah...you're right...there's no reason to take note of a story like this is there?

I don't mind it was posted, but Gonzo lives off these threads and is probably masturbating as we speak due to everyone agreeing that it's racist.

[GonzoLays]

“If Shaquanda had been white, the outcome would have been the same,” Superville said. “My decision was based on facts and law and I am confident this was the correct decision based on the facts I was presented.”

Yea right mutha****a. Just three hours earlier you gave the 14 year old white arsonist PROBATION for burning down a house, but a black girl giving a white woman a shove? 7 years in the slammer! WTF??!

[Ratboy]

Originally Posted by GonzoLays

“If Shaquanda had been white, the outcome would have been the same,” Superville said. “My decision was based on facts and law and I am confident this was the correct decision based on the facts I was presented.”

Yea right mutha****a. Just three hours earlier you gave the 14 year old white arsonist PROBATION for burning down a house, but a black girl giving a white woman a shove? 7 years in the slammer! WTF??!

3 hours? 3 months, idiot.

You're so enraged over this you aren't even reading the story.

[footstepsfrom#27]

Originally Posted by Ratboy

I don't mind it was posted, but Gonzo lives off these threads and is probably masturbating as we speak due to everyone agreeing that it's racist.

So if I'd posted it you wouldn't mind then, right?

[Atlas]

Texas is very racist in general. ni**er this, ni**er that... I hear that sh1t all the time in the bar.

[footstepsfrom#27]

He's pretending his hands were tied because a jury convicted here. That's BS. A judge can set aside a jury verdict. I doubt this case will even be found to subject to a court decision in the first place. TEA (Texas Education Agency) has strict guidelines about behavioral violations of the TEC (Texas Education Code) and I doubt anything in there advocates trying this in court.

The judge needs to be removed from the bench...obviously.

[Los Broncos]

Its bs to the max, just have to rise above it.

[footstepsfrom#27]

Originally Posted by Atlas

Texas is very racist in general. ni**er this, ni**er that... I hear that sh1t all the time in the bar.

Rural areas, especially in the eastern part of the state are bad...here in Dallas it's come a long way. It's got problems but nothing like this.

[Requiem]

That's a crock of ****. If I burned down that judge's house I'd be okay with probation. MWUAHAH.

[atomicbloke]

Originally Posted by Atlas

Texas is very racist in general. ni**er this, ni**er that... I hear that sh1t all the time in the bar.

Hmmm.. maybe in the small towns...