THESE TWO JUDGES GOT IT RIGHT

Two courtroom decisions were handed down last week and I couldn't agree more with the two judges. First, 20 year old Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the texting suicide death of her her boyfriend Conrad Roy. The trial generating international attention about teen suicide, depression and the impacts of texting. The judge ruled that Carter, who was 17 at the time, put Roy, who was 18, into a toxic environment urging him to go through with his threatened suicide, constituting reckless conduct and causing the death of her boyfriend. Did the decision cause precedent? Perhaps. It also makes a bold statement...bullies can't hide behind keyboards. And then there's the sentencing of the once powerful House Finance Chair Raymond Gallison who was sentenced to 51 months for looting $670 grand from a dead man's estate, stealing another 9-thousand bucks from a disabled woman's trust  and pilfering from a taxpayer funded nonprofit where he works. The rails were greased a bit more when it was revealed Gallsion was aware he was under investigation and confronted an undercover investigator watching him asking if he knew "who he EXPLETIVE dealing with." Well, now we know who that undercover investigator was dealing with...a scoundrel who is about to serve 4 years and 3 months in prison.


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