http://www.9and10news.com/story/27155254/ludington-police-searching-for-probation-violation-suspect

News vid at link.

Well they can't get him for failure to appear

They shouldnt be reporting this in the news, I never even knew that was an option. Now more people are gonna do it.

It happens fairly often. It happened here a few months ago. The fool was running down town like Forrest Gump with the crowd behind him.

Yeah, he may have traded a few minutes, days or weeks of freedom for what he was going to get, but I bet the Judge is going to up that a good bit.

Retards never realize that running away doesn't make their problems disappear
It just delays the inevitable

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that, I bet it was pretty funny as an observer.

I remember I was on a case where a young fella was on trial for smashing his brother in head with a clothes-iron.

The trial was not going well for him.

Wearing a prisoner's uniform, he blasted off out the door of the fourth-floor courtroom.

He hit hyperdrive just about the point where he got to the elevators.... whereupon he kept running past the elevators, and to the other end of the hall.

Where there is no exit.

The two fat deputies had just about waddled down to the elevators when "Speedy" was making his return from the dead end.

They collared him, and took him back to the judge who gave him a summary 5-day sentence for contempt, and then proceeded to hear the rest of the trial while the deputies held "Speedy" in the defendant's chair.

I swear, you couldn't make this stuff up.

Makes it worse, even.

Unless you can make it to Zihuatanejo....

The best one I ever saw was a guy who was 18, in Juvenile Court, getting sentenced for a couple car thefts committed when he was 16.  The judge gave him a year in a juvenile corrections facility.  Since he was now an adult, that meant that he would be taken to holding at the Juvenile Bureau, processed in, then released on unsupervised probation for a year, since you can't house adults with juveniles, and you can't incarcerate someone in adult lockup for a juvenile offense, barring outstanding circumstances or the person being charged as an adult.  So what did the genius do?  He attacked the bailiff and fled the courtroom.  Which constituted simple escape, a felony, which he had just committed as an adult, on camera.  So instead of four hours tops in holding, he got 2 years in prison at hard labor.

fucking retard.

I wasn't directly involved in the case, but I was in the courtoom when a fella showed up (with his laywer) in the afternoon for what was supposed to have been a morning sentencing.

This fella was unlike the typical defendant.
Well-dressed (not in Marshals's custody), clean cut.

His lawyer started to jabber, about "the circumstances that caused his client's delay," when the Judge interrupted the lawyer with a pointed question.

At that point Mr. Defendant stood up and declared that he wanted to say something.
The Judge told Mr. Defendant to sit down.
Mr. Defendant was hearing none of it, and attempted to go on with his declarations.

One of the senior Marshals, in his blue Marshals Service blazer, then approached Mr. Defendant to tell him to sit back down.

Just then, Mr. Defendant went into full Kung Fu mode on the Marshall in the blue blazer.
He dropped the Marshal with a mighty flying side kick to the Marshal's thoracic region.

Consistent with the lack of intellect that probably brought Mr. Defendant to this situation in the first place, he failed to consider that the courtroom was FILLED with law enforcement officers who were present for afternoon preliminary hearings.

It was like what happens when you throw a rock at a hornets' nest.

Every law enforcement officer in the courtroom swarmed on Mr. Defendant like a buzzsaw.

My view was momentarily obscured, as I noticed one of the local attorneys leaning over the bar like he was cheering at a prize fight.
Just then, I saw Mr. Defendant levitate above the crowd like Johnny Rotten surfing the mosh pit.
At that same instant I saw a dozen hands grab Mr. Defendant out of the air, and he was delivered to the floor with a WHOMP!!! that shook the room

The bloodied Marshal was escorted away, and the now quite-disheveled Mr. Defendant was held in the Defendant's chair while the Judge quickly sentenced him to his seven-or-so years in federal custody.
I'm going to guess that any requests to be "housed at a preferred location" were not well-entertained by the Court.

I thought it was hilarious.  I was in auto theft at the time, and had arrested the kid over a dozen times before.  He would literally get up, walk a bit, then steal a car to go to school, walk out of school mid day, steal another car, joyride in it, torch it, go back to school for the rest of the day, then steal another one to go home in.  His dumbassery finally got him a serious consequence at last, which made me happy.

well, it wasn't like he was going to be reformed..so yea, I agree with you there.  doesn't make him any less of a fucking retard though....it just caught up with him.

Every now and then I see a youtube video where a guy goes berserk at sentencing and makes a run for the doors. I guess sometimes they actually make it.

There was a guy down here that escaped the court room, got outside, tried to swim in the river, drown...

If the guy in the article crosses state lines the odds are he will never do a day in jail, if he does not re-offend.



the above is from THE ONE THAT GET AWAY a USA TODAY story from earlier this year.

Now that clown who ran out of court, he is sooo stupid he will likely get caught, not because of the competence of the police in that area, because he is a less competent criminal.

They can get him for escape.  If the Judge had announced his sentence he was in custody in the legal sense.  

That will be a nice little add on to his sentence.  

Dumbass.

We had one run out of county court a few years ago who was taken out by a passing lawyer throwing his briefcase at the guy and slowing him down enough for people to jump him

Sounds like someone a bunch of affected car owners should meet up and give a blanket party to

it does make for a good story to tell after he has been caught

Many moons ago I filed probation violation charges against one of my guys for a dirty drop. He was a coke head.

The Judge found him guilty and sentences him to prison. No courtroom bailiff present so the guy runs out of the Courthouse, jumps in his girlfriend's vehicle and takes off.

Drives out to State land with the cops giving chase, breaks into a buddy's house and grabs a .22 rifle. Parks the vehicle in the woods and shoots himself in the chest, missing his heart so he shoots again this time hitting it.

He always told me he wasn't going to prison. Got to give him a "A" for determination.

lol

Arrested.



http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2014/10/man_who_bolted_mason_county_co.html#incart_river

FPNI

I know that kid! No shit!


He's the one who'll be bagging my groceries in 20 years!

Damn. Small world it is.

http://www.9and10news.com/story/27169788/mason-county-man-caught-no-security-upgrades-in-store-for-court

Original sentence was 292 days.

How much is the judge going to tag on at his next appearance ?

fuck it

might as well make a break for it