Extreme measures?

[old hippie 56]

This is from Dallas: A seventeen, too young to buy beer or vote, but a adult under the Texas penal code. He took part in a $2 stickup in which no one got hurt. He pleaded quilty to aggravated robbery and was put on 10 years of probation. Tyrone Brown broke the rules once, by smoking marijuana. The Dallas judge responded in the harshest possible way: He replaced the original sentence with a life term in prison. Now the flip side of the coin, also from Judge Keith Dean's court: A well-connected man pleaded quilty to murder for shooting a unarmed prostitute in the back and got 10 years probation. John Alexander Wood proceeded to break the rules by, among other things, smoking crack cocaine. He repeatedly failed drug tests. Judge Dean has let this man stay free and last year exempted him from most of the usual conditions of probation.
Here in the great state of Texas, money talks and bullshit walks.