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Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More

ponraul writes "When Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., 58, sentenced Hillary Transue, 17, on a harassment charge stemming from a MySpace parody of her high school's assistant principal, Hillary expected to be let off with a stern lecture; instead, the Wilkes-Barre, PA area teen got three months in a commercially operated juvenile detention center. In a reversal of fortune, Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Conahan, 56, find themselves trying to plea-bargain an 87-month sentence in Federal correctional facilities relating to a kick-back scheme that netted the pair $2.6 Million and PA Child Care 5000 inmates." True poetic justice would be for these corrupt, callous judges to serve their sentences in the same kind of environment to which they were happy to dispatch juvenile defendants.

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  1. Re:Recourse by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 5, Funny

    She obviously spends a lot of time on MySpace, so she's probably already wasted a lot more than three months anyway.

  2. Re:No... by MoeDrippins · · Score: 4, Funny

    TRUE poetic justice would see them incarcerated in the juvenile detention facilities themselves, surrounded by the very kids they sent there.

    ...with the kids reading poetry, preferably of Vogon origin, to them.

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  3. Re:Need Special Police Force and Judiciary by Nexus7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And of course, a special police force and judicial system to watch over this special police force and judicial system.

  4. Politically correct name? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    commercially operated juvenile detention center

    A Mall?

  5. Re:Satire? by fosterNutrition · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... should have been disbarred for that ruling ...

    Dismembered. The word you are looking for is dismembered.

  6. Re:Need Special Police Force and Judiciary by mgiuca · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who will police the police?

    Police police police police!

    But who will police the police police?

    Police police police police police police!

  7. Re:Need Special Police Force and Judiciary by Anonymous+Cowpat · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and Chuck Norris to watch over them.

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  8. Re:worst scum by RemoWilliams84 · · Score: 0, Funny

    How about this one:

    Biker 1: "I say we kill 'em."
    Biker 2: "I say we hange 'em, then we kill 'em."
    Lady Biker: "I say you let me have him first."
    All Bikers: "OOOOHHHHH!"

    Pee Wee's Big Adventure

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  9. Re:Poetic justice? by doug · · Score: 2, Funny

    Capital punishment solves nothing, and just feeds the basest desire of humans for revenge.

    I thought it reduced the rate of recidivism and repeat offenders.