Today we went for a bond reduction hearing & instead of looking at the case these days, the District Attorney's office brought up the charges he had on Richard when he was 18 & 20 years old. That's 24 years ago & why should it matter in a case today? He was a kid then & those type charges have not applied since then either & so why does it have a bearing on his life today?
He had finished his time for that & we are talking about someone's life which has changed & since they been released they have had no charges referring to actual crime being done & all he has received is this possession charge.
After being incarcerated now 9 months & after all the work we been trying to do., we asked for a bond reduction court date & finally got it. But at the hearing, although Richard's Attorney Micah Sielert covered the difference in Richard's life these days, & he was working & would be allowed back at his job upon release.. That Richard has lived here all his life & he has his family was here too. That he has people to stand by him too. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY this case was set at $58,000 & the defendant had been in that jail for 8 months & because of inability to pay, then the family had asked for a bond reduction. Rules are that a bond is not meant for pre-trial detention & supposed to be set at ability to pay.
After being incarcerated now 9 months & after all the work we been trying to do., we asked for a bond reduction court date & finally got it. But at the hearing, although Richard's Attorney Micah Sielert covered the difference in Richard's life these days, & he was working & would be allowed back at his job upon release.. That Richard has lived here all his life & he has his family was here too. That he has people to stand by him too. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY this case was set at $58,000 & the defendant had been in that jail for 8 months & because of inability to pay, then the family had asked for a bond reduction. Rules are that a bond is not meant for pre-trial detention & supposed to be set at ability to pay.
MICAH SIELERT did an decent presentation of the facts & I was shocked to hear the DISTRICT ATTORNEY 'John Brewer' who came in & he took Richard's charges that he had 20 years ago & used them as if they were a current case now... Never did he distinguish this, nor did he clarify what had actually been within the last 10 year period that supposed to matter.
Richard had charges from 1995, when he was 18 years old & that was almost 25 years ago. The others were 18 years ago, & that's the jist of his charges that hold him as a felon & as being a violent offender too. So hearing the life of an 18 year old gang member instead of even the last 2 decades, caused the Judge to decide to keep him at an outrageous bond amount that was not set for his current charges as a single offence, or within a 10 year time period...
Richard has had nothing since his last release, besides this illegally obtained search & harassment, which did help lead him back into a continuous cycle that even I have given up on the system ever letting anybody make a change because Richard's past will always define him & that's all they give room for.
And crazy as it sounds a case that is for others a misdemeanor charge they choose continue to stick with15 years prison sentence as the offer even though it shows to be a possession charge naturally & then even offered to reduce to that.
Besides these old cases then Richard was only in trouble once & that was 7 years ago when he grabbed a toolbox out of the back of a truck. They have it listed as Burglary 2 & for that one incident in 2012 he was incarcerated 5 years, & now it's another possession & they want to throw 15 years in it because of what he did when he was a young & that was 25 years ago. Richard grew up on SE 23rd & Central which was the very worst side of town. I don't really have a record myself but I grew up in Moore where nothing goes on & I never been apart of surroundings being bad. His side of town was extremely violent & he has changed his life enough that in the past 18 years he was only arrested for this petty case & another, & the other had been 7 years back, which is nothing much. And for why was it all for when they use your past, which you done learned from, against you while you doing good.. .?
(it's always a life sentence with the system & that's why stastitics prove that once someone has been incarcerated it continues to repeat itself)
(" We all have a past, the difference between those people who achieve thier dreams & the difference between those who don't is they don't let the past define them.")
I have learnt that it's always a life sentence & that's what causes things to never change! That's why all these new laws won't change a thing either, because they find a way to not make it pertain to you. Once someone offends then their life has become that even after they finished their sentence & even if they been trying to change thier life.
The cops have harrassed him anyways ever since he returned to the streets & YOU CANT FIGHT NOTHING IN OKLAHOMA COUNTY BECAUSE EVERYTHING THE REPRESENTATIVES DO HERE IS ILLEGAL & THEY DECIDE WHO THEY WANT & THEY MAKE SURE IT ENDS THAT WAY.
While everything they do has 'just cause' & officers get away with murder, even though most all those cases are unarmed men, & these officers kill someone because 10 officers feel threatened by one man carrying a stick!
( https://newsok.com/article/5575356/da-clears-okc-police-officer-in-fatal-shooting-of-deaf-man )
I feel the 10 years after a sentence is already crazy because they give someone a 5 year deferred & then make it to where even 10 years after that it still matters. Don't they mean a 15 deferred because a deferred is basically promising that you won't get in any trouble for those 5 years or else you will do time. But even 10 years after then you get in trouble your gonna do that time still because that gives you priors & see so whatever they have you on doubles. So you best hope it is not a rough charge because it don't matter how minor your prior charge was because enhancements don't work like you would think here. Enhancements are not for repeating the same type charge like I thought.. . Enhancements come solely because of previous charge, or charges..
Well, come to find out now it's really a life sentence once you have had a charge because the ones they brought up at Richard's court date which made him sound like a violent offender were the ones that happened 22-24 years ago. Not anything was mentioned by the Prosecutor in that case today that was within those 10 years back even. Otherwise he would not have those type charges to make his case sound bad at all.
It seems to work because this is actually giving them reason to charge him with 15 years in prison over a possession charge,! So why not just call everything a life sentence & just leave it at that !
It seems to work because this is actually giving them reason to charge him with 15 years in prison over a possession charge,! So why not just call everything a life sentence & just leave it at that !
You would think it would be based on your recent life & that's why they say once someone goes to prison then it leads them back again & again. Maybe it's not them & maybe it's because we never accept their change & therefore never allow it to stay that way! .
I guess its legal but the law is fucked up & people dont live all that damn long once adults. My mom died at 53 & so I might have 30 years to live as well as an adult. If you take a 10 year deffered & then add 10 years after that in order to say somebody has priors & use it to convict twice harder.., then you may as well of called it a 20 year sentence. Nineteen years later if you caught a case then they come back & use it on you in order to give you twice the punishment is crazy because you did your time for that case & been good for 19 years, & its still going to fuck you because thats how they like to do things. ???
- Allows for enhancement of sentence for those facing criminal charges alleging they committed a new offense within 10 years of the completion of a previous sentence. (Not the sentencing date, the completion of the probation or discharge of the prison sentence.)
*** So they go by your sentencing date when they come up with the laws changing although you have not been sentenced yet. But when they want to convict you then your sentencing date is not what matters. I GET IT. THEY ARE HYPOCRITES.**
Yours truly, STACY PRIVETT
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