Hello my name is Ben and I just moved to Chicago and am learning what city life is. I'm from the U.P. of Michigan and graduated with an Associates in Math. I'm currently working as a Network Admin for a toasted pastry company. I'm a fencer, gamer,...
“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“
For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:
Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.
After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.
Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!
#StayWoke
The parole board split on whether Cyntoia should be granted clemency. /BillHaslam can still grant her clemency before he leaves in January. You can reach him at: phone #: (615) 741-2001; e-mail: bill.haslam@tn.gov
From a post on another site:
Having dug through the court documents (posted in comments) on this, here’s what I found.
By her own account, she waved down her victim in a Sonic parking lot. He bought her something to eat, corroborated by the employee.
They went back to his house. She denied that he had sex with her, or that she was raped. That was never part of her defense. She claimed he showed her his guns that were in a gun cabinet, claimed he was a marksman in the Army, and while they were laying in bed he kept getting up and going to the bathroom, which freaked her out, and some point she decided he was reaching for a gun. So she grabbed hers out of her purse and shot him in the back of the head.
Here’s the problem with this. She claims he tried to touch her in bed, but in her statement she claimed he was sleeping in his underwear. This was false. He was nude under the sheets, lending doubt that she even saw him get in bed, much less walking around the room as much as she claimed.
The victim was found laying on his side, with his fingers laced, placed slightly under his face in a sleeping position.
She robbed him of his guns, cell phone, and wallet, and took his truck back to Cut Throat. She enlisted the help of another male to help her dump the truck in a Walmart parking lot, telling him she was being paid $55,000 dollars to kill John Allen, and asking if he would return to his house and steal more. She called the police from his cell phone giving his address and saying one word: “homicide”, and hanging up.
She bragged to her adoptive mother in a recorded jail call that she “executed him”. At least two other inmates testified she bragged about murdering him and she shot him to “see how it felt” , including a handwritten note she passed admitting the claim she thought he had a gun was a lie. She threatened to murder a nurse who wouldn’t let her use the phone the same way she did John Allen.
The weird thing about this case, is that the man who gave her the ride to the Walmart was found with a folder containing real estate documents signed by her victim, making her statement of being paid $55,000 to kill him very curious. Cyntoia is who told investigators to look for it.
As for being sex trafficked, she was placed in an adoptive home that was described as “very loving” that she had run away from a few months before to be with Cut Throat. She was described as having a genius level intellect and as being stubborn and “very manipulative”. She admitted to doing drugs frequently, but denied early on being a prostitute, changing her story later after discussing it with the inmates who eventually testified against her.
This is why she was found guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree, and aggravated robbery, with her 51 year sentence upheld unanimously by the Tennessee Supreme Court, made up of 3 females and 2 males.
As a side note, Cut Throat was later shot and killed in an altercation, but details are scarce.
_______________
100% of court documents are publicly available and everyone is buying the media bs story.
Her conviction was upheld because based on actual evidence rather than feelings.
20 year old beginner: one year of learning flute and butterfly knife skillz :)
Fun fact: Adults actually learn those “You need to practice!” skills better than children do.
Kids tend to want to do literally anything aside from learning this skill my parent is forcing me to learn.
Adults actually can sit down and practice things for hours on end. Adults WANT to practice to get their skills better. Adults deliberately set aside time every day to practice. Even if it’s just 20 minutes, it’s productive growth and not wiggling in your chair mournfully watching birds out the window.
Anything from Drawing to Weaving to Violin to fuckin flipping bufferfly knives like a pro - choose a skill and LEARN, dammit! None of that ‘Children’s brains are more malleable’ bullshit. Brain squish is not the end-all of learning!
