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03-29-2008, 02:34 PM
|  | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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| | | PA judge sentences 3 to learn English
Pa. judge sentences 3 to learn English - Yahoo! News Quote:
Thu Mar 27, 2:16 PM ET
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.
The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said.
The men, Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez and Rafael Guzman-Mateo, plus a fourth defendant, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario, all needed translators when they pleaded guilty Tuesday.
"Do you think we are going to supply you with a translator all of your life?" the judge asked them.
The four, ranging in age from 17 to 22, were in a group that police said accosted two men on a street in May. The two said they were asked if they had marijuana, told to empty their pockets, struck on the head, threatened with a gun and told to stay off the block.
Attorneys for the men said they were studying the legality of the ruling and had not decided whether to appeal. One of the attorneys, Ferris Webby, suggested that the ruling was good for his client, Guzman-Mateo.
"My client is happy," Webby said. "I think it's going to help him."
The judge sentenced the four men to jail terms of four to 24 months. But he gave the three men, who already had served at least four months, immediate parole. Reyes-Rosario remains imprisoned on an unrelated drug charge.
Olszewski ordered the three to return with their parole officers in a year and take an English test. "If they don't pass, they're going in for the 24 (months)," he said.
Olszewski is known for outside-the-box sentencing.
He has ordered young defendants who are school dropouts to finish school. He often orders defendants to get full-time employment. But he also has his staff coordinate with an employment agency to help them find the jobs.
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03-29-2008, 04:05 PM
| | gr8 guy | | Join Date: Jan 2008
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| | A bit bizzare, but I think it would benefit them more rather than going to jail.
Unless they go back and do it again, figuring they won't get caught again 
This was in the US, right? If so I mean, English isn't the official language, technically. A bit odd to sentence someone to learn English. |
03-29-2008, 04:51 PM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | So... are they paying for these English lessons? Or should we expect other immigrants to follow suit? 
If only Ztedster were here, eh chaps? |
03-29-2008, 10:27 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | They'd learn some useful English in prison, surely? Do US prisons have classes for the prisoners to learn useful things, like speaking English and whatnot? Needlepoint? Batik?
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03-30-2008, 02:17 AM
|  | my coitus feels fabulous | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: not rolling silverware
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| | | I can only speak for my city, but I know here there are free English courses one can take at a variety of community centres. There's also at least one free Spanish course I know of that is also offered at a church somewhere downtown, open to the public.
The conditions of their arrest is sketchy, though. But in all seriousness who could go wrong with learning a second language? Especially when the other option is "jail"? |
03-30-2008, 07:05 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by bort  They'd learn some useful English in prison, surely? Do US prisons have classes for the prisoners to learn useful things, like speaking English and whatnot? Needlepoint? Batik? | Nah, just good ol' fashioned sodomy.  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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