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MAYWEATHER DESERVES MORE JAIL TIME THAN WHAT HE GOT PhilBoxing.com Thu, 22 Dec 2011  Floyd Mayweather Jr leaves the court after being sentenced to 90 days in jail. Photograph: Julie Jacobson/AP. Earlier today, Judge Melissa Saragosa of Las Vegas handed down her sentence for Floyd Mayweather Jr. The sentence was for domestic violence ? beating his girlfriend and in front of the children. Mayweather was so brazen that he did not mind doing the beat down in front of his kids. Plus he also threatened the kids as well. Mayweather could have gotten a longer sentence as prescribed by law if he went to trial and proven guilty. But his high-priced lawyer(s) got him to cough a plea and therefore the reduced sentence. Saragosa sentenced Mayweather to six months in jail, 3 months of which are suspended. In addition, he must attend a 12 month domestic violence program, pay a fine of $2500 and serve 100 hours of community service. He was also given a total of three days jail time credit. Thus, theoretically when he starts serving on January 6th, he will serve two months and 27 days. But with good behavior, he can get out in 45 days. Bummer! Admittedly, I have no legal expertise. But I firmly believe that the sentencing handed down today was a missed opportunity. Judge Saragosa should have thrown everything on Mayweather, including the kitchen sink. That would have serve as a high profile example that in the State of Nevada, or anywhere in this country, one can not just go around beating women because of their high profile name and the money they have in the bank. But who is to know what went on during the plea deal? Such is the justice system in this country. Now that the court proceedings are done, the ball is in the court of the jail and the probation system. Hopefully those that run the jail system will not give Mayweather preferential treatment just be cause who he is. Incidentally, now Mayweather is a nobody. He is just a convict like the rest who are in jail. Therefore, he should serve his sentence just like everybody else. He should be with the general population and not in some solitary cell where he can thumb his nose to the rest of the inmates. Putting Mayweather in the general population where he needs to be alert to stay alive is the only way to make him realize that beating a woman is a no-no. It?s even worse if it?s done in front of the children. Mayweather has been living the high life for long. True he earned that but that does not give him the right to beat women. Now, its time for him to taste the low life in jail where surviving means he has to be constantly on his toes. Further, it eliminates his access to those people who does what he wants at his beck and call. Hopefully the jail time he will serve no matter how short will slap him hard on the face to wake him up so that when the jail suit comes off, he becomes a better man. Mayweather after all needs a taste of the humble pie There is no better time for it to eat it than seating in a cold jail cell. When he get finally serve out his very short sentence, hopefully the probation department will assign him to the coroner?s office so he can help pick up the dead bodies of women who are victims of domestic violence. It would not hurt if he is also assigned to assist or at least clean up after the autopsy is done on these women. That should straighten him out. Click here for a complete listing of columns by this author. Click here for a complete listing of this author's articles from different news sources. |
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