Comments on: Man That Starved 10 Horses Gets House Arrest, Ordered To Write Letter

By: Haven

Haven — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:07:28 +0000

These beautiful horses were in no way recieved justice!! The house arrest is a pure JOKE not to mention the tiny fines! As long as these are the punishments for people who abuse and neglect their animals there will be no end to it. People will continue to abuse and neglect their animals with no fear from the law and probably move on to children. I am pure disgusted with our court systems and the judge in this case.

By: Queenbee

Queenbee — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:26:59 +0000

Seven of the eight horses were rehomed, but one was kept by P.E.R. because she was in such bad condition. Now she has been rehabilitated and is up for adoption. She is on the adoption page on their website.
See the story athttp://panhandleequinerescue.org/news6.html” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”> http://panhandleequinerescue.org/news6.html

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:07:34 +0000

Have any of the resued horses made any kind of recovery since then, and have any been rehomed

Good job for all those who helped and volunteered their time and trailers. P E R.for boarding, feeding and vetting them.
sheriffs dept.

By: horse lover

horse lover — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:25:08 +0000

why didn’t they just give him a candy bar and ask him politely not to eat it in front of the starving horses next time???

By: Polythenepam

Polythenepam — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:16:39 +0000

Well the story doesn’t say that the judge with held adjudication, or suspended the sentence. So based on the point system it must be that this person never did anything else to cross the law, OR there are some circumstances (involving physiological eval) that prevented this person from have to do jail time. If the physiological evidence does not support the house arrest time I would expect the judge to have him picked up to serve his just sentence. BUT the story does not support that either unfortunately. The facts we are given support the sumation that the judge has not followed the sentencing dictated in this instance. Which is why we need to remember this ones name (John Parham) at election time.
There are several other points I question, if you commit a crime in Florida , are judged and sentenced in Florida, and have probation in Florida what makes this guy so special that he can live in Alabama he ought to have to stay put like anybody else. You know the probation officer isn’t leaving the state to check on this guy. Sounds like a lot of fishy business to me. I wonder how Parham and Bethea are related.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:19:09 +0000

little leeway isn’t NO leeway

there is also witholding of adjudication

there are suspended sentences

and of course, a judge can decide one bit of evidence isn’t wothy of consideration and another is. Just because we don’t understand or agree with a particular judges reasoning in a particular case doesn’t mean it wasn’t valid.

David in a world with many paths

By: Polythenepam

Polythenepam — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:56:49 +0000

Matter of fact, the only judging involved is whether or not the crime falls within what parameters, the punishment is then prescribed by the law books. If you don’t believe it go look at florida law dot com. You do “x” then the punishment is a,b,or a and b. Even that is calculated by a system of points accrued through previous encounters with law enforcement.

By: Polythenepam

Polythenepam — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:46:47 +0000

Check the law books, it’s mostly rubber stamp, very little leeway for judgement, or creative punishment.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:15:23 +0000

A judge has to use judgement, otherwise their names should be changed to rubber-stamps.

By: Polythenepam

Polythenepam — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:48:55 +0000

Judges should have to quote the statute or law pertaining to the judgement and sentencing of each and every person they have appear before them. The rest of us need to understand how he came to each particular decision. All punishments have a “formula” that is the states recommended punishment, alot of them are mandatory.
This one stinks and does not ring true there has to be some mitigating circumstance we are not aware of, but we should be made so even if it violates the convicted person’s privacy , at this point he gave up his rights as an ordinary citizen. Guys who drag donkeys get a year or three and this guy here gets none? hmmmmmmm???????? It might be why the judge ordered a physical eval, if he is very sick the state does not want to take care of him……..in which case monetary punishment could have been more severe, I know the equine rescue people sure could use it.