On January 10, 2022, James Edward Ragland II, 31, was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary for shooting and killing Iesha Edwards, 27, outside what the Lexington Herald-Leader euphemistically called a “gentleman’s club.” Originally charged with murder, Commonwealth’s Attorney Lou Anna Red Corn allowed Mr Edwards to plead down to manslaughter.
On January 19, 2022, Malachi Jackson, now 20 but 16 at the time of his crime, charged with the murder of 15-year-old Kevin Olmeda, was allowed by Miss Red Corn to plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, and first-degree criminal attempt to commit robbery. With a recommended sentence of 15 years by the prosecution, time already served taken into account, and the state minimum of 85% of sentence required, Mr Jackson could be out of jail by the age of 31.
On February 11, 2022, Jemel Barber, 23, was sentenced to twenty years for the killing of 40-year-old Tyrece Clark. Mr Barber was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and second-degree robbery, down from murder, by Miss Red Corn, and if he serves his full sentence, including time already served, he could be out by age 39.
On March 11, 2022, Xavier Hardin, 21, was allowed by Miss Red Corn to plead guilty to manslaughter, assault and wanton endangerment charges in the killing of Kenneth Bottoms Jr., 17, and charges of murder were dropped. The shooting was caught on security tape in Fayette Mall.
And here she goes again!
Lexington man gets 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in a deadly shooting
by Christopher leach | Friday, April 1, 2022 | 10:23 AM EDT
The man who shot and killed a 44-year-old man in March 2020 was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday.
Seantel Watson, 34, was originally charged with murder for shooting and killing Larry Steven Rose Jr. but was convicted of a lesser charge. Watson turned himself in one week after the deadly shooting. The charge was amended down to manslaughter when Watson accepted a guilty plea deal on Feb. 14, nearly two years after the shooting. The shooting took place on Smith Street near Transylvania University on March 6, 2020.
A call of shots fired came in shortly after 3 p.m. and Rose was pronounced dead just over 30 minutes later.
Prosecutors recommended a 10-year sentence for the manslaughter charge, and Judge Thomas Travis agreed to that sentence. Mr Watson has already been locked up for slightly more than two years, and will receive credit for time served. Mr Watson, 34, if released after serving the state minimum of 85% of his sentence, could get out when he’s just 40 years old. His victim will still be dead.
I have to ask: at what point does the Commonwealth’s Attorney start prosecuting murderers for murder? At what point does Miss Red Corn stop treating killers leniently?
Oh, wait, I already know: Miss Red Corn will prosecute Bemjamin William Call to the full extent of the law, because he is accused of beating John Abner Tyler to death in a Lexington parking garage. The Herald-Leader ran four separate, sympathetic stories about the victim. Mr Abner was not another black male with a shady past, or a black woman outside a strip club, but a white man ‘married’ to another white man.
In Lexington, the sentence for killing someone depends on whom was killed.
Sounds like part of the Soros Attorney General Club.
Given time, she might start increasing Kentucky’s population, with murderers from other states, after they find that the crime is worth the time, In Kentucky
She wasn’t part of the Soros cabal, but sometimes I think she could have been. What I’ve noticed is that black lives don’t matter, because the victims of the ‘manslaughterers’ to whom she gave such lenient sentences are all black. One was a woman outside a strip club, and though I couldn’t find information that she actually worked there, my guess is that she did.
Others were drug deals gone bad, or rival gang members. In one, the victim was armed as well, though he hadn’t pulled his weapon, and the shooting was caught on tape; it should have been open-and-shut if it had gone to trial, and Miss Red Corn put a bad guy away for the rest of his miserable life.
Kentucky has three possible sentences for murder: death, life without parole, or 20 to 50 years. We could have kept these cretins behind bars until they were elderly, and far less likely to be a danger to anyone. Instead, she’s allowing killers back out on the streets while they are still relatively young.
WHAT A BUNCH OF SHIT!
I’m not sure what your comment means. Does it mean that it is a bunch of [insert slang term for feces here] that these killers have been treated leniently, or that you believe my article was a bunch of [insert slang term for feces here]?
Wondered the same thing when the system filtered his post; only approved to give him the benefit of a fair hearing and see what he has to say about it.
His reaction is about what I said to myself under my breath reading the judge’s BS… got some funny looks from other passengers on my bus.
It has always been so. The murdered victim has a substantial influence on the efforts of the police and the prosecution. It isn’t fair; but it is so.
This has been entirely a choice made by the Commonwealth’s Attorney; all of the people I have listed above were originally charged with murder, and were then allowed to plead down to manslaughter. Iesha Edwards was a mother of two, shot dead outside a strip club. While I cannot confirm it, I believe that she was an employee there, working to support her kids. Now her kids will grow up without their mother, and her ‘manslaughterer’ will get out of prison after just ten years.
Some of the victims listed were bad guys themselves, but that should not mean that their lives were somehow less valuable under the law. More, treating their killers leniently means that their killers will be out on the streets again, while still relatively young, endangering other people’s lives.
Apparently, the sentence for murder depends just as heavily on who the prosecutor is.
Here in Lexington, few honest people go to the Fayette Mall. There have been several shootings and other acts of violence there. Even the Apple Store moved out to a nicer mall. It’s a shame, it used to be a nice mall before the violent savages took it over.
Glad to see I have another Kentucky reader!
When I left the Bluegrass State, in 1984, Fayette Mall was a busy, busy place; when I returned, in 2017, malls were well on the downward path, but that was true nationwide.