CJS 221 Sentencing_Discrepancy.docx Sentencing Discrepancy Sentencing Discrepancy CJS/221 Sentencing Discrepancy Allen Christopher Peters is a white seventeen-year-old male. He was charge with robbery with a weapon.
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CJS 221 Sentencing_Discrepancy.docx Sentencing Discrepancy Sentencing Discrepancy CJS/221 Sentencing Discrepancy Allen Christopher Peters is a white seventeen-year-old male. He was charge with robbery with a weapon. He was given a plead deal that had no jail time. Allen Christopher Peters was sentence to probation. œJust before 9 a.m. on a Monday in 2012, two men wearing black hooded sweatshirts and ski masks entered a Lee County convenience store and demanded money. They were armed with guns. They grabbed $300 from the register. They took the store clerk™s wallet and jewelry. (Johnson and Salman, 2020). There was a co-defendant name Jaquavias Sturgis a black seventeen-year-old male. He was also charge with armed robbery and received a plead deal. He was sentence to four years in prison. Jaquavias Sturgis stated that he was told by his attorney that was the best deal he could have got. œBoth Peters and Sturgis have three confidential crimes on their juvenile records, which were not taken into consideration. Both were convicted of armed robbery in the same county. Both signed plea deals to avoid trial and both were 17 at the time of their offenses. Both scored the same points. Nothing in the public files provides an explanation for why they were treated differently. Peters™ file has been destroyed, according to the State Attorney™s Office. The disparity between the two cases is not unusual. Since 2004, Lee County judges sentenced black defendants convicted of robbery to an additional 16 months on average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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