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[CNN.com] Justice Finally Served for Hispanic Teen...

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  1. Two Sandwiches

    Two Sandwiches Member

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    I haven't seen this posted anywhere. If it is, shoot me....


    Assaulter gets life in prison


    'Evil' teen jailed for savage party beating
    POSTED: 8:08 a.m. EST, November 18, 2006
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    HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- A teenager described as a white supremacist was sentenced Friday to life in prison for savagely beating and sodomizing a Hispanic boy at a drug-fueled party.

    David Henry Tuck, 18, was convicted Thursday of aggravated sexual assault in the near-fatal attack. Witnesses testified that he hurled racial insults and shouted "white power" while sodomizing the 17-year-old victim with the plastic pole of a patio umbrella.

    Prosecutor Mike Trent told the jury that Tuck's history of violence showed he is beyond rehabilitation and would commit more attacks if released.

    "He is an evil person, and he is not going to change or get better," Trent said. "We need protection from him. You are the only ones that provide that."

    "Even if you give him life in prison, it will be more mercy than he showed to [the victim] that night," Trent said.

    After the jury imposed the sentence, Tuck's mother, Sharon, hugged the victim's mother in the courtroom.

    "I am so sorry," Sharon Tuck said as they both cried. She also hugged the victim, whom The Associated Press has not identified because he a juvenile sexual assault victim.

    The assault took place at a party in the Houston suburbs where several youths had gathered to drink alcohol and take drugs, including mar1juana, cocaine and the anti-anxiety medication Xanax.

    According to testimony, the attack was triggered by the victim's drunken pass at a 12-year-old girl and his attempt to steal drugs.

    Doctors did not initially expect the boy to live. He was hospitalized for more than three months and underwent 20 to 30 operations. He testified Wednesday that he remembered nothing of the assault.

    Defense attorney Chuck Hinton appealed to the jury's religious faith, saying that Jesus would show Tuck mercy.

    "I know that justice has to be done. I know a terrible thing happened. Justice needs to be done, but with mercy," Hinton said.

    He also said Tuck had an abusive, absent father and was raised by a single working mother. His only role model, Hinton said, was his older brother, a skinhead who is in jail.
    Teacher testifies

    Prosecutors presented a chain of witnesses Friday to describe more than a half-dozen other attacks in which Tuck assaulted people, including a Hispanic man who was punched and kicked at a convenience store by three skinheads.

    Linda Cabbell, a special education teacher who taught Tuck in elementary school, said he was violent when he was as young as 9 or 10, recalling how he punched her in the eye and kicked her in the groin. Tuck was later expelled.

    Tuck will be eligible for parole in 30 years. The other teen charged in the beating, Keith Robert Turner, 17, is set to go to trial next month.

    The victim's father said Tuck should never be released from prison.

    "He deserved what he got. This will be with us for the rest of our lives. There's no healing," said the father. The AP has not identified the parents because doing so could identify the victim.

    Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed



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    Good news here. I'm glad to see the kid survived, and that the monster that did the crime is going to pay the proper time.
     
    #1 Two Sandwiches, Nov 18, 2006
  2. Xenochimera

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    reminds of me of american history x. good thing the victim survived, but so many other lives will be affected.
     
    #2 Xenochimera, Nov 19, 2006
  3. Aceshigh7

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    Yes. It was a heinous crime and he deserves to be put away for a long time, but life in prison? That is a ridiculous sentence and it clearly shows a fear of and a pandering to the hispanic population. Manslaughter sentences are less than that.

    I only wish they would use the same sentencing guidelines for the numerous hispanic on white attacks that happen much more frequently than this.

    Well, as the OJ Simpson and Reginald Denny trials showed, the courts can produce some really ridiculous judgements if your seen to be a member of an oppressed minority and the courts are afraid of enflaming racial strife.
     
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  4. Cohen

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    Holy Cr*p...

    3:49 am... hi Mel, welcome to the board.
     
    #4 Cohen, Nov 19, 2006
  5. Smokey

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    He will be eligible for parole in 30 years.

    This is not his first hate crime or violent attack. The victim would be dead if not for advances in medicine. Did you not read the witnesses' testimony? Oh yeah they were pandering to Hispanics :rolleyes: Furthermore, it was a decision of 12 jurors, so even if the prosecutor was pandering, your theory is debunked.
     
    #5 Smokey, Nov 19, 2006
  6. Van Gundier

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    People got together at the party to take Xanax?

    Is that what white suburban kids do nowadays?
     
    #6 Van Gundier, Nov 19, 2006
  7. CometsWin

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    Soft on crime... embarrassing.
     
    #7 CometsWin, Nov 19, 2006
  8. Surfguy

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    Umm...that defense attorney is a real b*stard. Mercy? Where was the mercy when that guy was kicking a pipe up the Hispanic teen's ass almost killing him? Plus, this idiot skinhead isn't remorseful or anything. Screw him. Throw away the damn key.
     
    #8 Surfguy, Nov 19, 2006
  9. oomp

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    It's the current drug of choice. That LaMarque QB that got busted right before the playoffs last week, got busted because he had Xanax.
     
    #9 oomp, Nov 19, 2006
  10. kwik_e_mart

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    It's due time to hand out some tougher sentences...

    I wish the judges can do that in Canada...
     
    #10 kwik_e_mart, Nov 19, 2006
  11. bejezuz

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    Actually, life sentences aren't unheard of in violent sexual assault cases. Ask yourself if you'd feel the same way if this was your sister that he beat to near death and sodomized?
     
    #11 bejezuz, Nov 19, 2006
  12. Yonkers

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    To me that is key. Everyone thought the kid was a goner and if it was for the doctors he would have been. I treat this as if it was a murder. And a horrendous one at that.
    Add to that his history of violence I would given him life without parole.
     
    #12 Yonkers, Nov 19, 2006
  13. MiddleMan

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    tucker will get as$ handed to once he steps into the pen, he will be marked man by the hispanics locked up they already know about this its just a matter of time. :eek:
     
    #13 MiddleMan, Nov 19, 2006
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  15. SWTsig

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    absolutely.
     
    #15 SWTsig, Nov 19, 2006
  16. RocketManJosh

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    He got everything he deserved ... I agree that it is seems to be a harsher sentence than most for similar cases. I go the other way though in that I choose not to bash them for giving him such a harsh sentence, but rather criticize them when other similar situations do not get as harsh a sentence
     
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  17. Landy

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    It's not pandering. The youth already proved he was a danger to society. His past teacher testified that he punched her and gave her a black eye. He was expelled from school for bringing a knife. He was arrested earlier for beating a hispanic man in a convenience store. He had already been in and out of jail several times in the last four years. On MLK day, he paraded around his neighborhood with a swastika flag. He has no place in society. How is it pandering? The kid beat, slashed, sodomized, poured bleach on him, and left him for dead. Tuck and the other kid were pondering about dragging the victim to a ditch and leaving him there.
     
    #17 Landy, Nov 19, 2006
  18. MR. MEOWGI

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    Stupid headline. Who exactly gets to determine what justice is?


    That is so absurd that I don't even know where to start.

    Crap on top of crap.
     
    #18 MR. MEOWGI, Nov 19, 2006
  19. Aceshigh7

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    Don't get me wrong. I am all for putting this scumbag away for life. But I only wish that the same guidelines would be used in the reverse circumstances.

    I've heard of cases where hispanics have raped, beaten, and sodomized white women and only gotten 10-20 years.

    I guess because they sodomized them with their penis instead of a stick that they deserve a lesser sentence right? :rolleyes:
     
    #19 Aceshigh7, Nov 19, 2006
  20. Xenon

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    Show us an example of what you are describing. A white woman beaten/raped so badly that doctors expected her to die and the hispanic man got only 10 years.
     
    #20 Xenon, Nov 19, 2006
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