A group of twenty armed U.S. Marshals have spent days driving Sierra across county to bring her back to Michigan in a small bus. Days of driving go by, but it is still only day three when she reaches the Women’s Holding Interment Prison of Eastern Michigan (or WHIP-EM for short). The Saginaw Under Prosecutor Thomas Michaels awaits her arrival.
Prosecutor Thomas Michaels: So, you are Sierra LaPayLynn, the notorious jay walker and escapee. I’m the big deal prosecutor of this town. All hail to me. Welcome to WHIP-EM.
Sierra: Yes, sir, I’m Sierra LaPayLynn, all right. I’m sure hoping you’ll be willing to listen to reason. My crime was so long ago and I was given such a long unfair sentence. I’m hoping the year I spent in prison the last time will be sufficient, since anybody now being caught jay walking just gets a $20 fine. By the way, it’s it very unusual for a convict to meet directly with a prosecutor?
PTM: Yes, it never happens, except in literary dramatizations, so I can’t imagine why we are talking. But that’s what the writer of this blog wants, so what choice do we have?
Sierra: Alrighty, got ya. But about me getting a re-sentence?
PTM: Sorry, lady. You’re barking up the wrong Prosecutor. I’m here to see that you complete the long hash sentence you originally got. It goes against even the state constitution, but voters here want to bring back hanging and I know what side by bread is buttered on. Do you think I’d be willing to lose even a single voter but applying justice to you?
Sierra: But, I’ve reformed and tried to live by the law. Over thirty years. Surely, Saginaw can forgive after all this time.
PTM: Are you kidding? Saginaw has houses that are selling for $1.75 on eBay. People are leaving by the bus loads everyday. We’ve had to put up road blocks just to slow them down. I’ve decided to blame you for all our problems.
Sierra: But Saginaw was falling apart when I left. It had nothing for me. I got discourages and walked across the middle of a street. I fell in with the wrong crowd and they were all doing it. I got caught and I wanted help. Instead, I got sent away for what could have been most of my life.
PTM: Yeah, honey, thats right. One of your cohorts, got what you did – forty years. Granted he was running down the middle of the freeway, naked and shouting something about being a fire engine, but it was all a jay walking crime. DON’T DO THE CRIME –IF YOU CAN’T DO THE TIME. (golden rule of prosecutors).
Sierra: Who said that, anyways?
PTM: The great jurist Sammy Davis Jr. in a song back in the 1970s from a TV show no one remembers anymore, except for that saying. Our entire legal system in Michigan is now completely based on it.
Sierra: But, it doesn’t make any sense. How does someone know what the time is supposed to be? What says a minor crime deserves such are brutal sentence? Why do I have to go back? I didn't deserve what I got! Someone here must have some common sense.
PTM: Sorry, but we’re simple folks here in this part of Michigan. Sure, people in Detroit and fancy places like Anne Arbor believe in fair sentencing and things like sentences that allow people to reform. But mostly we here like to see what we call “bad people” suffer. It’s only by extreme punishment that we get to feel better about our selves.
Sierra: But, I swear to you, I’m not a “bad person”. I was a kid that made a foolish mistake.
PTM: Look, Missy, don’t you swear around here. That’s another crime. You want another years or two? Now your cohort did 8 years in prison and someone ran over him the day he got out. So that justifies my ignoring your rights.
Sierra: But the sentence is against the Michigan Supreme Court ruling. I could appear it and get out.
PTM: Yeah, lots of luck with that. It will take at least eight years to wind it’s way though the system. We like to make sure there justice for very few, other than crooked politicians and the very wealthy.
Sierra: Bummer!
PTM: Yeah, bummer for you. More votes for me. Bahhawhaw!
Disclaimer: Due to repeated email queries the writer categorically denies all resemblances to any vice presidential candidate along with any resemblance to Susan Lefevre who has been unjustly sent back to a Michigan prison after thirty years of being a law abiding citizen. I don't know why anyone would mistake this above person for Susan LeFevre.
Although I do suggest witting to Judge William A. Crane and asking for Susan LeFevre's safe return to California:
Honorable William A. Crane
Saginaw County 10th Circuit Court
111 S. Michigan Avenue,
Saginaw, Michigan 48602
Reference Case No. 74-00284-FY
Again any resemblance to a Vice Presidential candidate is unintended and purely coincidental. Joe Biden is definitely not the basis for anyone mentioned in this blog.
1 comment:
Give me a break. I know who you are really talking about here. LeFevre deserves everything she gets. Let her rot in prison. Do the crime and expect to do the time.
You're not even funny.
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