Pensacola, FL – A Florida man who stole $600 worth of cigarettes from a convenience store has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison.
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A jury in Pensacola convicted 48-year-old Robert Spellman of burglary and grand theft in August. Authorities say Spellman took 10 cartons of cigarettes from a stock room in the store manager’s office last December. He was sentenced Friday.
The Pensacola News Journal reports that Spellman had 14 felony and 31 misdemeanor convictions prior to the cigarette theft, which qualified him as a habitual felony offender. That led to the lengthy 20-year prison sentence imposed Friday by an Escambia County judge.
Discrimination !!!!!
The Judge is insane!! Send him to extensive therapy & rehab!!
What a nerve to put such a burden on taxpayers! Only in this crazy justice system can even a habitual felony offender get 20 years! in the slammer.
I’m sure that our esteemed scholar in residence, “Educated Archy” would disagree; however, in this case, this individual was a habitual offender with a long criminal record. Therefore, he deserved the lengthy prison sentence. As the saying goes, “you do the crime, you do the time”.
He got 20 years because he is a recidivist criminal not because of the cigarettes.