Judge gives 155-year sentence in UR abductions

[Prick]

These guys are bad, very bad. No Christmas presents for them.

https://www.democratandchronicle.co...four-sentenced-ur-abduction-torture/95693434/

 

[Curly]

I couldn't continue reading, it just made me sick.

 

[papasmerf]

Could not read it...........AD BLOCKER is on.

 

[Curly]

Could not read it...........AD BLOCKER is on.

I read it all now, here it is.

The trial testimony of the two University of Rochester students who were kidnapped and brutalized last December was so painfully harrowing that it sounded like the script of a Quentin Tarantino movie, state Supreme Court Justice Alex Renzi said Wednesday.
And, Renzi said, Lydell Strickland was as responsible for those crimes — the planning of the abduction, the torture of the victims, the thefts of their bank cards — that he should never taste freedom again.

"I was trying to think if there were any redeeming qualities that you had, and I couldn't come up with any," Renzi told Strickland at Strickland's sentencing. Renzi then sentenced Strickland to 155 years in prison.

Absent successful appeals, the courtroom case of those who helped kidnap the two students and brutally assault them ended Wednesday with the sentencing of four people convicted by a jury in November. Five others pleaded guilty earlier and have been sentenced.

At trial, the two students testified about how they were duped to go to a city home by two young women who claimed they wanted to party with them. There, they were tied up and beaten — one was shot — while being held captive for 40 hours before being rescued by a police SWAT team. Before the rescue, their bank cards were stolen and used for cash machine withdrawals.
Renzi said Wednesday that he is sure the two would have been killed, if not for the work of the police.

Strickland has a previous violent criminal record and parole violations. He continued to smile in court Wednesday, as he was described as an individual lacking any semblance of humanity and likely to commit more crimes if ever allowed to be free.
"Mr. Strickland deserves to spend the rest of his life in a jail cell," Assistant District Attorney Matthew Schwartz said at sentencing.

Also sentenced Wednesday were Ruth Lora and Inalia Rolldan, whom Renzi sentenced to seven years each. Schwartz asked for much longer sentences, but Renzi noted that seven years was the initial plea offer to the two women and that trial evidence showed that although they had been at the city home where the students were held, they did not participate in the brutality.
"Neither of you were actually involved in the terror, the torture that was inflicted on (the victims)," Renzi said.

Neither Rolldan nor Lora were involved in the plan to lure the students to the city home at Harvest Street.

“Despite the conviction Inalia maintains her innocence,” said Rolldan’s lawyer, James Riotto II. “She played no part in this crime and was wrongfully convicted.”

Renzi sentenced David Alcaraz-Ubiles, who was at the home and convicted of kidnapping and weapons charges, to 15 years. He is now serving a 15-year-sentence for an assault, and the new sentence will begin when the other is completed.

Inalia Rolldan, left, and Ruth Lora are taken into custody after sentencing. Both were given seven-year sentences.(Photo: MAX SCHULTE/@maxrocphoto/File photo)

David Alcaraz-Ubiles was was sentenced to 15 years. (Photo: MAX SCHULTE/@maxrocphoto/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

The Harvest Street home was a well-known drug location where many went to get high. Most disturbing from the trial testimony and plea agreements was the fact that many people circulated through the house without alerting police to the ongoing torture.

In December 2015, the victims — Nicholas Kollias and Ani Okeke Ewo — were wrongly targeted as payback for a drug-related robbery allegedly committed by a UR student who, like the two, played for the university football team.

Kollias was shot in the leg as he tried to escape an ambush at the house.
Neither appeared at Wednesday's sentencing.

"I think the victims wanted to begin to move on with their lives," Schwartz said.
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[papasmerf]

Thanks Curly


Bout time a judge gets it right.

 

[Boing]

They need to be put down but a very slow death.

 

[oldguyzer]

And a painful one at that...