Don't piss off the guy who holds your entire future in his hand. Geez, what a dumbass.

Yeah - no kidding! I almost posted this as another vid in the "DumbAss of the Day" series...

Because sentencing a man to 120 years is casual enough to be the consequence of a verbal argument.

this dumbass deserves it... be a real man and flip out and punch your attorneys and shit.. dont flap your gums

*eia - what a dumbass

Adding video to channels (Eia) - requested by Zonbie.

I kind of agree. I'd like to imagine that judges are above emotional reactions, but this confirms my personal experience that they're not. It's like when somebody falls for an internet troll and reacts ungracefully.

>> ^imstellar28:
Because sentencing a man to 120 years is casual enough to be the consequence of a verbal argument.

>> ^schmawy:
I kind of agree. I'd like to imagine that judges are above emotional reactions, but this confirms my personal experience that they're not. It's like when somebody falls for an internet troll and reacts ungracefully.
>> ^imstellar28:
Because sentencing a man to 120 years is casual enough to be the consequence of a verbal argument.


All he said is that he's "...accepting the state's recommendation". Meaning, he's not going to pull any favors for this guy or give him a benefit of the doubt when considering his sentencing. Why would you piss of a guy who can only help. This is nothing like an internet troll. He shot at cops.

The guy and the judge are both idiots but I'd say the judge is more evil.

Moran!!

Guy shoulda kept his stinkin' pie hole shut. Plain and simple. He got a warning from the judge and disregarded it. IMO, He got exactly what he asked for. Personally, I'm glad a piece of trash like him will never see the light of day again.

I honestly do not think the judge should have the power to force the guy into hearing his morality speech. If the accused just wants to hear his sentence and that is all, wtf is the problem

>> ^Duckman33:
Guy shoulda kept his stinkin' pie hole shut. Plain and simple. He got a warning from the judge and disregarded it. IMO, He got exactly what he asked for. Personally, I'm glad a piece of trash like him will never see the light of day again.


The offense we're talking about here in your words is "got a warning from the judge and disregarded it".

My wild guess would be jail time for shooting in the direction of a SWAT team is something like 20 years.

So that leaves 100 years for the disregarding a warning.

Are you honestly saying this guy deserves 100 years in jail for that?

He shot at a police officer with the intent of killing him/her. Frankly, anything other than a well placed bullet to the cranium during the shootout is letting this guy off easy, as far as I'm concerned.

coming next to a prison cell near you, "I dare you to butt rape me 120 times, 120 TIMES!"

"My wild guess would be jail time for shooting in the direction of a SWAT team is something like 20 years."

"Wild Guess" being the operative term...

these people are like children that don't grow up. i'd love to know who was responsible for neglecting him so much he didn't finish school. of course he's responsible for his own actions, but when your mental age is below 16, shouldn't the people who were supposed to care for you share some responsibility?

>> ^ObsidianStorm:
"My wild guess would be jail time for shooting in the direction of a SWAT team is something like 20 years."
"Wild Guess" being the operative term...


Good job missing the point.

>> ^alizarin:
>> ^ObsidianStorm:
"My wild guess would be jail time for shooting in the direction of a SWAT team is something like 20 years."
"Wild Guess" being the operative term...

Good job missing the point.


You didn't have much of a point if your "wild guess" was only 20 years for attempted murder of a police officer.

Lets do a rational comparison. The man shot at police officers and killed nobody. The judge just sentenced a man to 120 years because of a verbal argument. If 76 years = 1 human life, and this man tries say 20 people a day, how often does he over-sentence people after losing his temper, or sentence people for unjust crimes (such as marijuana possession). If he has been a judge for 20 years, and on average, tries 10 people a day 20 days a month, dishing out on average 1 year of unjust punishment on each, that is 48,000 man-years or almost 631 lives he has extinguished.

What punishment would you suggest of someone who has killed 631 people? I would suggest, a bullet in his head.

>> ^alizarin:
The guy and the judge are both idiots but I'd say the judge is more evil.

How do people get the impression that the judge wasn't going to accept the state's recommendation to begin with? It sounds as if the judge had that little speech ("based on...") prepared.

Even if the prisoner did goad the judge into giving a longer sentence, I don't have a problem with that. Sentencing commonly takes into account the demeanor of the defendant, as it should. If this guy is acting like a sociopath right through his sentencing hearing then that's all the more reason not to let him rejoin society.

There's always the possibility that the man didn't want to live his life on the outside for some reason, and that gives him the ability to do as he pleases in court.

>> ^Crunchy:
There's always the possibility that the man didn't want to live his life on the outside for some reason, and that gives him the ability to do as he pleases in court.


Prison is no longer a deterrent to anti-social behavior. I've known people that have spent the majority of their adult lives behind bars, yet when they get out they go right back to committing crimes.

I think what we should do is bring back labor camp prisons, because well let's face it, most of these shitheads are lazy bitches that like prison because they don't have to do anything all day long. So starting on their first day in the joint, you drag their ass out of bed at 4:00 am, by 4:30 they're plowing fields, breaking rocks, digging ditches, mining coal(my personal favorite), etc. until about 9 at night, lights out at 10, with only the barest of rations to maintain proper nutrition. Let them do that 6 days a week, and I bet our recidivism rates would plummet. Then we'll be watching videos of douchebags like this crying like babies, "Please go easy on me your honour! Please!! Waaaaa!"

the description said "shut your d*** mouth!"

Are we bleeping damn now, or was it "dick mouth"? because that would be funny. Especially given where he is going, it's probably more accurate.

How is accepting the state's recommendation abusing his power and being the more evil of the two? There's nothing hear to say he wouldn't have accepted it even if there was no smart ass remarks from the defendant. Either way, the guy has already been found guilty, so a punishment was proposed by the plaintiffs and your only job as a defendant at that point is to give just cause why you don't deserve that and should have a lesser punishment. He's clearly missed the point here. I say screw him, he got what he deserved.

>> ^alizarin:
The offense we're talking about here in your words is "got a warning from the judge and disregarded it".
My wild guess would be jail time for shooting in the direction of a SWAT team is something like 20 years.
So that leaves 100 years for the disregarding a warning.
Are you honestly saying this guy deserves 100 years in jail for that?


It might make more sense if you started with the facts instead of your assumptions. Part of the problem is the title is misleading: the Judge did not increase this moron's sentence.

Hastings is convicted of 4 counts of attempted murder, 2 counts of second-degree assault and an unlawful possession of a firearm charge. The standard sentences total 120 years. The defense was seeking a reduced sentence of 90 years. He didn't get it and I don't believe that had anything to do with the judge. The trial showed that the defense's argument, that Hastings was firing randomly and not trying to kill the police, didn't hold water and found him guilty on all charges above.

http://columbian.com/article/20090212/NEWS02/702139975/-1/NEWS

>> ^southblvd:
Moran!!

Erin Moran?

120 years is an absurd punishment, What if the guy had killed 50 people on his way out of the courtroom, should they give him another 3200 years? I dont see the point in these longer-than-life punishments, most likely he'll be released before he dies anyway.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
120 years is an absurd punishment, What if the guy had killed 50 people on his way out of the courtroom, should they give him another 3200 years? I dont see the point in these longer-than-life punishments, most likely he'll be released before he dies anyway.


Yeah he'll probably be out in 18 months to make room for some potheads who got the mandatory 5 years.

xxovercastxx,
Yeah I was just going by the description on this page. Some idiot shot out a window to keep the swat team away, he wounded one of them - that's how I read it. It seemed to me that the judge was abusing his power and throwing every last scrap of the guy's pathetic life away because he was irritated and since the judge wields this kind of power routinely that's allot of life he's likely throwing away in a career.... so that's why I said I thought he was more evil. One wounded cop that's back to work vs a judge that can't balance his temper with justice.

>> ^ObsidianStorm:
"My wild guess would be jail time for shooting in the direction of a SWAT team is something like 20 years."
"Wild Guess" being the operative term...

Good job missing the point.

You didn't have much of a point if your "wild guess" was only 20 years for attempted murder of a police officer.


According to wikipedia the average sentence for murder is 29 years. This was attempted murder so I guessed 20 years. Not to mention a police standoff implies to me he was trying to not be caught, not trying to murder police. But the point that seems to bother you is that the judge seemed to let his temper come before objective justice. If you have a bug up your butt about my misunderstanding of how sentencing works feel free to keep complaining.

The "wild guess" wasn't really that bad - I was just bein' a dick...

Longer version if you're interested :