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Brandon was such a cute baby...

And I will say that I am not an employee of Pittman, I keep my job regaurdless of who is on the bench. I just get frustrated when you hens get on here and cackle with your reckless banter and have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. You only know what the record courier tells you, so while your in front of the computer why don't you take a glance at the court dockets(they are online) and then you might have some clue as to what you are talking about.

"A Randolph man was sentenced to 10 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to seven felony charges stemming from a string of break-ins in Portage County." I do apologize I thought that was simple enough to understand that it was a plea bargain. That's where it was mentioned in the article. Also:
2911.13 Breaking and entering.

(A) No person by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an unoccupied structure, with purpose to commit therein any theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or any felony.

(B) No person shall trespass on the land or premises of another, with purpose to commit a felony.

(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of breaking and entering, a felony of the fifth degree.

Straight out the ORC copied and pasted.....so where in there do you see anything about an occupied structure. You don't!! Why don't you get a clue and stop pretending you know the law and leave it up to us professionals. Also you mentioned something about idiots and then you say and I quote "the fact is I THINK" wow....really. And you say I should look into whether or not a judge had to accept a plea bargain...well fact is hun that if you'll look at the dockets you'll see the phrase "dismissed by motion of prosecutor". So yes when the prosecutor dismisses charges thats the end of it and the judge cannot reactivate charges that where dropped. I think what you are referring to is sentencing offers, the judge does have the final say on that the only thing the prosecutor can do is "suggest" a sentence. I think that's probably where you got confused. And as for your comment " Two cases not 7. That alone shoots down your little attempt at justification of the sentence." Well again that was assuming on my part. I assumed you understood the difference between "cases" and "charges". You can have multiple charges on one case, not each individual charge is a case. You'll read in the article that he was indicted on 2 cases with a total of 18 charges. I guess the Rec Courier should simplify things a little more so the readers have a better understanding of what they are talking about.(i.e. actually use the phrase "plea bargain") But I guess they figured like I did that it was pretty self explanatory. And I'm afraid I am one of the only ones that KNOWS what I'm talking about, as opposed to just sitting in front of my computer watching law and order thinking I have an understanding of the criminal justice system.

Does anyone on here think that tellnit knows the difference between charged with and pleaded to? I thnk not

and who the heck was bashing pittman?

and I do for a fact know what a plea bargin is, any simple idiot does. But no where in the article did it mention plea bargin!!

My no comment comment was from the standpoint that this punk ought to be thankful that he only had to plea to 7 of the charges. I wish you would ask what one means when one posts a comment if one doesn't understand, instead of running your mouth like you are superior in some way.

One would suspect that one might be an idiot, and as such one probably might assume that one might be the most ignorant person who posts on here. It might be better to keep ones mouth shut, thus preventing one from removing all doubt of ones idiot status. and again all i can say is NO FURTHER COMMENT

Tellnitlikeitis You do not know what you are talking about. First of all, I said breaking and entering an inhabited dwellings in the night season use to carry a life sentence. Now if you are half as smart as you think you are check it out. You can break an enter any building, thus the difference a inhabited dwelling was stipulated because of the danger of harming people in inhabited building. They are both Burglaries as are break ins as mentioned in the article.

Here again you make an ass out our yourself for assuming I might have appeared before Judge Pittman and have a vendetta against her. To show you how stupid you are, I worked on her campaign, but I still think she is too lenient. I wonder, are you in her employ? Does you job depend on her keeping her job ? Are you a relative of Brandon W. Ruyten?
Now do you see that this kind of name calling and attempt to belittle others is only done by people that can not come up with facts. The fact is I think she is too lenient.

As for a little criminal justice, I am far beyond 101. Maybe you should look into if the Judge has to accept a plea bargain. As far as leaving Portage County, no thanks I think I will say here and try to rid it of people like you that seems to think they are the only ones that know anything, and are one of the reason we have so many problems. People that don't know and don't know that they don't know and don't want to be told they don't know.
Speaking of plea bargain, I see nothing in the article that this was a plea bargain. What I did see was "Portage County Prosecutor Victor Vigluicci said Ruyten was sentenced to five years on each of the two cases, and Pittman ordered the sentences to run consecutively for a total 10-year sentence." Two cases not 7. That alone shoots down your little attempt at justification of the sentence.

Also to bqwhotoo1, you tried some math in your post and came up with something about 6 mos for each felony. Well if that where the case Ruyten would be serving 3.5 years. Seeing as how he pleaded guilty to 7 felonies, not 17 felonies, and 4 misdemeanors. And you wonder what they did with the rest, well that's what is referred to as a "Plea Bargain", this is where the prosecutor offers a little lieniancy in return for a guilty plea which would result in a conviction. It's a common practice excercised accross America, it's not some crooked little hush hush secret invented by Portage County. "My oh my. all i can say is NO COMMENT" wish you would of thought of that before you posted one.

ok to the justice system challenged people posting on this forum allow me to try and keep this as simple as possible. For starters dowhatsright said "It use to be life for breaking and entering an inhabited dwelling in the night season." Well that in itself is an oxymoron, you see you can only "break and enter" a structure that is UNOCCUPIED(i.e. shed, detached garage, out building etc.)If the structure is occupied or is a structure that is likely to be occupied(i.e. a house, office building, school, etc.) then it becomes a burglary charge. See where we're going with this....ok good. I'm not quite sure y the personal vendetta against Laurie Pittman is about(I can only guess you had a bad experience in front of her) but again as I've told you before it would be great if you could possibly educate yourself just a bit before posting your uneducated, reckless comments. As the article states he pleaded guilty to 7 felonies(that means the PROSECUTOR offered him a plea bargain. NOT Laurie Pittman but you don't consider that or think about that, you just go on attack at Laurie because of whatever vendetta you have against her. Now that we've had a lesson in Criminal Justice 101 lets do a little math lesson. A felony 5 carries a maximum of 18 mos, so now lets take 7 and multiply that by 18, what did u get? Nope, its 126, now there are 12 mos in a year...correct? So take our 126 and divide it by twelve, I'll save you some work it's 10.5 So wait a minute that's ten and a half years so does that mean that it's possible Laurie sentenced this man to 6 mos less than the maximum allowed by law?........you don't know, because you don't know $hit. You just wanna get on here and bash authority any time you get the chance. If you are unhappy in Portage County and unhappy with its officials maybe you should move.

sorry for the double post,,,puter problems