Fugitive deserves hard time
I think that it's absurd to even suggest that Susan LeFevre (AKA Marie Walsh or whatever else she called herself) should be allowed to go free after walking away from DeHoCo back in 1976, where she was serving 10-to-20 on a drug dealing conviction.
If fact, this recaptured fugitive's rationale for seeking freedom instead of finishing her sentence reminds me of the old story about the young man who killed both of his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.
If anything, LeFevre deserves to do a lot of hard time in some really dank Michigan prison, not some country club like the one she rode away from in her grandfather's car 32 years ago after she skipped out.
LeFevre, you understand, wasn't doing her stretch for some minor offense like holding a parade without a permit or spitting on the sidewalk. She was serving 10-to-20 years for selling $2,000 a week worth of heroin to who-knows-how-many kids.
She claims that at the time she was a 21-year-old junkie and she needed money to feed her habit. That's an excuse? Nonsense! The pertinent question here is, how many other kids did she corrupt? How many really innocent lives did she impair or ruin?
I happen to have two kids who were 23 and 21 in 1976. My son and daughter faced the same strains and stretches in their teen years that LeFevre faced in hers. There but for the grace of God, they could have been her customers.
I'll tell you this: If she had lured any of my kids or other family members into drugs by supplying their habit to pay for hers, she'd have welcomed three squares and a flop in DeHoCo compared what I'd have in store for her if I ever found her hanging out at some soccer moms' meeting in San Diego, clean or not.
"I'm beside myself," LeFevre is quoted in Saturday's Detroit News as saying, "to think that I might be locked in a room for something I did as a teen."
Shoulda thought about that a long time ago, lady.
A court convicted her of the drug charges, on evidence. Once in prison, she bolted. That's two offenses. She says she's sorry. Big deal. So are a lot of parents - who knows how many? - whose kids were doing her lines and snorting her powder.
According to LeFevre, on the day she went over the wall her granddaddy and another relative were waiting on the other side, saying the rosary. As Kwame might text-message to his squeeze-of-the-day, LOL!
Her husband of 23 years in her "other life" describes LeFevre as "a person of the highest integrity."
Proving only, I guess, that you really can fool some of the people, some of the time.
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Fugitive Deserves Hard Time
Right on neoconssuck. They do. They are all for 'law and order' except when it comes to punishing the guiltiest of the guilty - about 95% of the current administration in Washington, D.C. Ole' Pete is a classic example of pointing the finger away from the one who should be taking responsibility for the druggie deal - his offspring. Think about it Petey.
Waldmeirs column.
Hey Pete-must be nice to pontificate and take the high road. You ever been arrested for anything? Time for you to go back to the pasture and reflect on your own mistakes and life in the mirror.Give this woman community service for female addicts and convicted suppliers in her home town with court supervised probation. To separate her from her family does no good. What you want only punishes the innocent children she has had and raised.Community service she would be good at-she has been on both sides and turned her life around. And, like others have said-we are letting murders and rapists out due to over crowding. Get a grip Pete-you missed the boat on this one.
Hard Time already served
Put the lady on probation and send her home. This is crazy. If she married, had kids and lived each day with this secret on her conscious, she has been punished enough. Isn't the reason for sending folks to jail, to punish them and hope they learn from their mistakes and don't do the crime again? I think this lady has learned her leason and I doubt very much she will repeat her crime. 32 years of her life has been affected already. I doubt it would serve the public or her any good to put her in jail and pay for housing her when our prisons are already overcrowded and we are letting rapists, murderers, and such out early to free up space. Get your head out of your rear and tell me exactly what sending her to jail would accomplish! Nothing, absolutely NOTHING! What a waste of tax payer money....!
Hard Time
Personally, Pete, I think you should have stayed retired. Absurd? Had it not been for the fact she, as a kid, got caught, the statue of limitations on her crime would have expired ... decades ago. And do you really think the seller of drugs is responsible for the use by other people. Had your kids elected to buy and use drugs it would have been their own fault. You sound like the same fools today who look to someone else to blame for their own bad decisions. What she did was wrong then, to be sure, but it is in no one's interest at this late juncture (except perhaps to satisfy your need for what, revenge?) for this woman to spend even one more day in jail, let alone the hard time in a dank prison you suggest. You lack both common sense and compassion.
Column idea
Another great column, Pete! Did you see the story in the Freep this morning about Kwami's relatives and friends on the payroll? Bet you can't let that go by without comment!
Fugitive Deserves Hard Time
Given Michigans prison budget issues,her behavior since her escape and the idiocy of the drug war let her off with a big fine,probation and maybe a year in a minimum security prison. It's asinine to put people in jail for 10-20 years for selling/using drugs while those convicted of manslaughter get far less. Alcohol and tobacco is legal,but pot isn't? We've wasted how many millions of dollars on this misguided war on drugs and for what? To what end? To punish people for their addictions? Absurd.
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