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Hey everyone!\u00a0 It’s “Second Chance Month.”\u00a0 President Biden has said so himself (see this piece<\/a> at SL&P).\u00a0 The President is a bit short on specifics, but assures us that, “During Second Chance Month, we lift up all those who, having made mistakes, are committed to rejoining society and making meaningful contributions.”<\/p>\n

“Mistakes,” got that?\u00a0 Fleecing grandma out of her life savings, selling smack to an addicted 16 year-old, raping a first grader\u00a0 —\u00a0 look people, don’t be so judgmental.\u00a0 They’re just “mistakes.”<\/p>\n

I’ll be saying more in future posts about the Happy Face, if fact-free, yammering about second chances.\u00a0 For now, I just want to focus on the one question that cries out to be asked but never is:\u00a0 A second chance to do what<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Today’s Washington Post, of all things, provides a glimpse of the answer.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the headline of the story<\/a>:\u00a0 “Man charged in Prince George\u2019s triple slaying previously went to prison for D.C. homicide in 2000, records show.”<\/p>\n

Oooooops.\u00a0 Looks like the ex-offender’s “meaningful contributions” weren’t exactly what Mr. Biden and his fatuous crew at DOJ keep lecturing us about.<\/p>\n

Sayyid Malik Hayat, the man charged this week with murder in the\u00a0killings of three people in a Prince George\u2019s County fire station parking lot<\/a>, previously served time in prison for fatally stabbing a takeout delivery driver when he was a teenager, court records show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hayat, who is being held without bond at the county jail on the new charges, was arrested and indicted in the summer of 2000 after he stabbed 41-year-old Hong Guang Gao in the chest in Northeast Washington, according to court records and news reports at the time<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know why he’s being held without bond.\u00a0 Haven’t these characters heard of bail reform?\u00a0 Where are our progressive prosecutors now that we need them?<\/p>\n

Hayat was 17 years old at the time of the fatal stabbing and was charged as an adult with murder, according to news reports at the time. But court records show he eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter while armed and was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison…It\u2019s unclear how much of his sentence he served, but the last time he was released from prison was June 2020, according to federal records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So he was sentenced to a term which, if fully served, would not have elapsed for another nine years.\u00a0 But he was released pretty much in mid-sentence, after which it took him less than a year to kill again, except this time three people instead of one.<\/p>\n

Although these murders took place less than ten miles from the White House, President Biden has been silent about the outcroppings of Mr. Hayat’s “second chance,” and about what “second chances” he’s planning for Hyatt’s victim’s.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden and his criminal justice reform pals need to ask, and to take seriously, the question, “Second chance to do what?”\u00a0 Since they’re not about to, I will use this space to ask it, and to set forth what the data tell us about the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone!\u00a0 It’s “Second Chance Month.”\u00a0 President Biden has said so himself (see this piece at SL&P).\u00a0 The President is a bit short on specifics, but assures us that, “During Second Chance Month, we lift up all those who, having made mistakes, are committed to rejoining society and making meaningful contributions.” “Mistakes,” got that?\u00a0 Fleecing grandma out of her life savings, selling smack to an addicted 16 year-old, raping a first grader\u00a0 —\u00a0 look people, don’t be so judgmental.\u00a0 They’re just “mistakes.” I’ll be saying more in future posts about the Happy Face, if fact-free, yammering about second chances.\u00a0 For now, I just want to focus on the one question that cries out to be asked but never is:\u00a0 A second chance to do what? Today’s Washington Post, of all things, provides a glimpse of the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehabilitation"],"yoast_head":"\nA Second Chance...............To Do What? Part I - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3376\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Second Chance...............To Do What? 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