[Marxism] "Creative sentencing": Pa. judge sentences 3 to learn English

[Mike Friedman]

Pennsylvania, with a "criminal justice" system that has such "victories"
under its belt as the railroading of Mumia and the firebombing of MOVE
headquarters, and has thrown up (literally) such luminaries as Rizzo and
Szabo, why isn't the following too surprising?

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Pa. judge sentences 3 to learn English

Thu Mar 27, 2:16 PM ET

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered
three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.

The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can
remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs
and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr.
said.

The men, Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez and Rafael Guzman-Mateo, plus a
fourth defendant, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario, all needed translators when they
pleaded guilty Tuesday.

"Do you think we are going to supply you with a translator all of your
life?" the judge asked them.

The four, ranging in age from 17 to 22, were in a group that police said
accosted two men on a street in May. The two said they were asked if they
had marijuana, told to empty their pockets, struck on the head, threatened
with a gun and told to stay off the block.

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