(Reuters) - A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to break back into the jail where he had been held following his conviction in a manslaughter case, local media reported on Wednesday.
Oddly Enough
A judge sentenced Sylvester Jiles, 25, to the maximum 15-year penalty on Monday after his conviction earlier this year for the attempted break-in at the Brevard County Detention Center, the Florida Today newspaper said.
He apparently feared violent reprisals from family members of the manslaughter victim and suffered severe cuts when he tried scaling a 12-foot-high (3.65-meter) barbed wire fence to break into the jail.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62N52L20100324
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36000255/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Something is terribly wrong with our system if he got more time for breaking into jail than for killing a man. He also sounds a bit off.
Oddly Enough
A judge sentenced Sylvester Jiles, 25, to the maximum 15-year penalty on Monday after his conviction earlier this year for the attempted break-in at the Brevard County Detention Center, the Florida Today newspaper said.
He apparently feared violent reprisals from family members of the manslaughter victim and suffered severe cuts when he tried scaling a 12-foot-high (3.65-meter) barbed wire fence to break into the jail.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62N52L20100324
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36000255/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Something is terribly wrong with our system if he got more time for breaking into jail than for killing a man. He also sounds a bit off.