Indy FOP calls for judge to resign and for changes to courts after Dorsey sentencing
Indy FOP calls for judge to resign and for changes to courts after Dorsey sentencing
INDIANAPOLIS – Angry reaction from community leaders continue to pour in after a controversial punishment was handed down to the man who was convicted of killing Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer Breann Leath.
Dorsey was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty but mentally ill on the following charges:
One count of reckless homicide Three counts of criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon One count of attempted murder One count of criminal confinement Dorsey was not convicted of murder by the jury. That charge was reduced to the lesser reckless homicide charge.
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Snyder, who is the president of the Indianapolis FOP, said during a Friday afternoon news conference that residents of Indianapolis, as well as Indiana residents and those throughout the country, saw a “miscarriage of justice” through Stoner’s sentencing.
In response, Snyder said the maximum sentence of 63 years should have been implemented for Dorsey in this case, which Snyder called an attempt of “cold blooded murder.”
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“As mayor and as a father, I’m shocked and disappointed in the decision that was handed down yesterday,” said Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett.
Who cares what FOP wants...they only serve to enable further erosion of our rights and allowing police to suffer 0 consequences when the over react and curb stomp innocent folks. Or let them no knock raid the wrong house......or prevents disciplinary records from following shit cops from job to job.
I haven't often heard Hogsett and the FOP be on the same side of an argument.
What are people's views on judges having the (usually) sole power in certain circumstances like sentences?
Should they all be elected or appointed, or a mix?
I often have contempt for judges because they have so much power in their special room.
Was this a miscarriage of justice?
I haven't looked at sentencing for similar crimes, but wonder if this was typical for the situation. I know I wouldn't be happy if my wife was killed. No sentence would probably due.
They ruled that he was paranoid and having a psychotic break when he did it so he was probably oversentenced except he killed a cop.
There’s no winning with judges. They should not be elected because they run on being tough on crime, but they shouldn’t be appointed by one individual without confirmation.
Really, if they lessened the time-as-a-lawyer requirements to match the time-as-a-prosecutor requirements(or just as well, maybe better, eliminate the shorter time-as-a-prosecutor option entirelyr, it could do a lot to address this.
As things stand, Prosecutors can run for office as a judge before any but the worst or most open dirt on them has a chance to surface, while already serving in a position that insulates them from consequences. Once they make judge, its a lot harder to hold them accountable.
The judge in the OP? Not part of the problem. Not based on this case anyways.
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