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Title: Insight ... Florida man sees "cruel" face --- of U.S. justice
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news.yahoo.com
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-flori ... -face-u-justice-050157061.html
Published: Jul 3, 2012
Author: Tom Brown
Post Date: 2012-07-05 17:17:11 by BorisY
Keywords: racism, racism, racism
Views: 494
Insight: Florida man sees "cruel" face of U.S. justice By Tom Brown Reuters Jul 3, 2012 MIAMI (Reuters) - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago. "My first offense, and they gave me all this time," said Davis, a pudgy African American with dreadlocks who spoke with Reuters at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. "Might just as well say I'm dead." Davis was convicted of participating in a string of armed robberies in the Miami area in 2010. His accomplices testified against him, saying he carried a gun during their crimes and discharged it at a dog that chased them after one of their burglaries. But Davis was not convicted of hurting anyone physically, including the dog. Davis would occupy no place at all in the annals of crime if not for his sentence. Now 20 years old, he was sentenced to 1,941 months - almost 162 years - in prison without the possibility of parole. On the day of Davis's interview with Reuters, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that life sentences without parole for defendants under the age of 18 constituted "cruel and unusual punishment" even in cases of murder. Unfortunately for Davis, he was 18 at the time of his crimes. Nonetheless, Davis's attorney will argue that Davis's sentence to die in prison also constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" on the grounds that Davis is a "first offender," having never before been charged with a crime. < gone/ > Davis was convicted of seven counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, an offense punishable under the so-called mandatory minimum sentences imposed by Congress since the late 1980s. Mauer said such sentences have been associated with an 800 percent increase in the federal prison population since 1980. Although he has no alternative explanation, Davis cannot accept that that is the real reason he will have to die in prison. "There ain't no justice in the justice system," he said, gazing down at his olive-green prison jumpsuit and beige rubber sandals. "I ain't going to never accept what happened," he added. "They know what they did isn't right." (Editing by Lee Aitken, Douglas Royalty, Prudence Crowther and Jim Gaines)
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