[T]hree previous felony drug convictions and on evidence presented at the sentencing hearing that Moore participated in other crimes of violence, including the murder of Jason Schwindler, a Dunbar armored car employee, during a robbery.
The question people should be asking is “What was he doing out in the first place?”
At the time of this arrest, Moore was on supervised release for a prior federal conviction.
He was also a prohibited person and knew that, and he was still on probation for another felony. While I don’t support the idea of mere possession of anything as a crime, and I don’t support the idea of “drug crimes” (I assume he was on probation for those drug crimes), I do support strong consequences for probation violations.
I don’t think a life sentence is reasonable for what he was actually convicted of in this case (mere possession of ammunition by a felon), but with his history of violence he probably shouldn’t have been out in the first place.
These kind of cases I like. I also think that once a prisoner has paid his debt to society and is freed he should not be under any legal disabilities but this guy had not done that yet.
Ammo possession was the least of his infractions against the law. He was sentenced after conviction for everything from carjacking (a potentially capital offense in MD) to murder during armed robbery. This fella was just begging for a life sentence plus 35 years.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I’d argue that he got life for MURDER which is quite a bit different.
I do not question this persons conviction, but I do question how minor offenses stack the way they do.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:09 am
The question people should be asking is “What was he doing out in the first place?”
He was also a prohibited person and knew that, and he was still on probation for another felony. While I don’t support the idea of mere possession of anything as a crime, and I don’t support the idea of “drug crimes” (I assume he was on probation for those drug crimes), I do support strong consequences for probation violations.
I don’t think a life sentence is reasonable for what he was actually convicted of in this case (mere possession of ammunition by a felon), but with his history of violence he probably shouldn’t have been out in the first place.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:31 am
These kind of cases I like. I also think that once a prisoner has paid his debt to society and is freed he should not be under any legal disabilities but this guy had not done that yet.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Ammo possession was the least of his infractions against the law. He was sentenced after conviction for everything from carjacking (a potentially capital offense in MD) to murder during armed robbery. This fella was just begging for a life sentence plus 35 years.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Not what one would refer to as a “Sympathetic Defendant”.