The six CHS students who pled guilty in April to attacking UVa students earlier this year have been sentenced, WINA reports. Four were given a year’s probation (having already served two weeks in detention), one two months in a detention center, and one is under house arrest until December.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Can anybody explain what goes into “detention?” To be “detained” really doesn’t say much. (Though I’m sure that’s a standard term that means something to people that know what they’re talking about. :)
Hmmm… Looks like we have an opportunity here for a lengthy debate on the definition of “prisoners” versus “detainees”.
It’s jail for kids.
from http://www.corrections.com/aca/standards/seeking_terms.htm
it’s good to know that if i brutally attacked people 5 different times it would all be behind me after less than 2 months in jail. it’s nice to know that if i give a guy a concussion for 2 weeks, another guy a messed up eye so he has to get surgery, and take away people’s security, i’ll only be under house arrest for 6 months. it’s nice that if i say i’m sorry it makes me seem so good that my sentence is short. they are sorry- sorry they got caught. if not, they would have kept doing this who knows how long. oh, and vernon howard’s apology in court was no apology- it was “i’m sorry IF i hurt anyone.” i guess it’s a question if you really hurt someone when you give them a concussion or messed up eye. it’s good to know that the attackers were not punished b/c they had dreams of going to college. wouldn’t want to serve justice and stand the chance of letting their actions actually have consequence in their life.
Both Candace Merrick, the ringleader who led five of the attacks, and Vernon Howard the attacker who beat up and injured several people and then got house arrest should have been tried as adults.
Gordon Fields who was at one of the attacks was tried as an adult after he plea bargained away a felony charge and he is going to jail for two weeks. He did far less than Howard but he’s still going to do some jail time.
The slap on the wrist that Howard got was also a slap in the face to the victims. I know that one of the victims has been having recurring nightmares and been under a lot of fear caused stress. That victim now feels even worse because they have been abandoned by the justice system.