senior citizen
08-01-2013, 01:59 PM
Amazingly, CNN carried the entire sentencing of Ariel Castro without their famous annoying "pause" button........
Being a rainy day, we had tuned in to CNN from noon on and were quite impressed with Judge Russo's "litany" of charges against Ariel Russo.
It was almost as if he was playing with his mind.....letting it sink in how many "ten year sentences" for each count........all adding up to 1,000 yrs.
Actually Life without parole plus 1,000 years.......
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"There is no place in this city, there is no place in this country, there is no place in this world for those who enslave others," Judge Michael Russo told kidnapper Ariel Castro.
The court in Cuyahoga County is seizing the property of Ariel Castro and imposing a fine of $100,000 on him, in addition to his massive sentence.
[Breaking news alert, 1:45 p.m. ET]
"A person can only die in prison once," Judge Michael Russo told Ariel Castro Thursday in handing down a sentence of life in prison plus 1,000 years. The judge called the sentence "commensurate with the harm you've done."
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The judge spoke for quite a long time, after Castro spoke......
Later, the judge called him a narcissist.
Castro thought they had lived in harmony.
We had followed that case since it first broke.... when they escaped......
Back at the turn of the century, many of my Italian cousins from the same town my grandparents emigrated from.........settled in Cleveland Ohio.
We actually have Russo's in our family tree. This judge was awesome.
He seemed to pretend to be tallying up the "counts" and the "years" when in actuality he no doubt already had it all figured out......ahead of time.
I can't believe Castro's lawyers already will appeal. I mean....he signed the plea agreement, as the judge stated. Go figure. Plus, at the last he asked if he could get parental rights for his daughter, fathered and born in captivity.
Being a rainy day, we had tuned in to CNN from noon on and were quite impressed with Judge Russo's "litany" of charges against Ariel Russo.
It was almost as if he was playing with his mind.....letting it sink in how many "ten year sentences" for each count........all adding up to 1,000 yrs.
Actually Life without parole plus 1,000 years.......
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"There is no place in this city, there is no place in this country, there is no place in this world for those who enslave others," Judge Michael Russo told kidnapper Ariel Castro.
The court in Cuyahoga County is seizing the property of Ariel Castro and imposing a fine of $100,000 on him, in addition to his massive sentence.
[Breaking news alert, 1:45 p.m. ET]
"A person can only die in prison once," Judge Michael Russo told Ariel Castro Thursday in handing down a sentence of life in prison plus 1,000 years. The judge called the sentence "commensurate with the harm you've done."
************************************************** *********
The judge spoke for quite a long time, after Castro spoke......
Later, the judge called him a narcissist.
Castro thought they had lived in harmony.
We had followed that case since it first broke.... when they escaped......
Back at the turn of the century, many of my Italian cousins from the same town my grandparents emigrated from.........settled in Cleveland Ohio.
We actually have Russo's in our family tree. This judge was awesome.
He seemed to pretend to be tallying up the "counts" and the "years" when in actuality he no doubt already had it all figured out......ahead of time.
I can't believe Castro's lawyers already will appeal. I mean....he signed the plea agreement, as the judge stated. Go figure. Plus, at the last he asked if he could get parental rights for his daughter, fathered and born in captivity.