I think they can request to be tried separately. I'm sure gp can answer that one. That's a gutsy lady. I wouldn't have spent another night alone in that house.

The good of this punk is he got his HS diploma while locked up? What else is he going to do?

These three went back to rob a 76 year old woman twice. How low on the human scale do you got to be in order to do this twice to someone. Absolutely sickening. Put them in jail and throw away the key. I'm telling you, these people doing this won't get the message until the message is unavoidable.

Buckwheat would be ashamed

The sad part in this is not only that the elderly were robbed, etc. but as many times as people get sick and tired of hearing "he had a bad childhood," I know the severity of abuse from family as a toddler scarred him deeply. Loving foster parents later adopted him, and did ALL they could, but the damage had already been done. He could use prayers right now, I'm sure, more than anything.

On another note, in yesterday's article about the guy threatening and robbing the Amish in buggies, it says he got 5 years probation, and no jail time. The other one with him got jail time. It didn't look to me like the judge followed any of the guidelines in sentencing. Was it because he cried in court and said I'm sorry? I don't understand the system and how there seems to be no consistency.

This is good? WHAT NONSENSE! All this did was help make this guy a smarter crook. Education is neither good nor bad. If getting an education made you good then Bernard Madoff should have been a saint. Good and bad is all about what you do with the brains you were given.