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16-year sentence for consensual sex.
	Steven and his wife may have messed up but they handled the situation better than the State of Florida and the US Justice system ever will. They were a family, something the US Justice system doesn't understand. And what is most important they were happy together. The pictures don't lie. Until State of Florida, Judge Larry Schack & US Justice system destroyed this family on Jan. 09 2007 when they sentenced Steven to 16 Years prison time. Prior to the legal system entering this picture, Steven, Tiffany and Trent stood a good chance of making it as a couple and a family.
Our Constitution intended that only elected lawmakers be permitted to create law, yet judges create their own law in the judicial system based on their own opinions and rulings. It's called case law, and it is churned out daily through the rulings of judges. When a judge hands down a ruling and that ruling survives appeal with the next tier of judges, it then becomes case law, or legal precedent. This now happens so consistently that we've become more subject to the case ruling laws made by the lawmaking of judges rather than the bodies outlined in our Constitution.......... it is estimated that 70 percent of low- to middle-income citizens can no longer afford the cost of justice in America. What would our Founding Fathers think? That would be O.K. if the judges would read the facts of the case they are presiding on, and then make a decision. In most cases they do not read, therefore they are making their ruling solely on the prosecutor's theory and base their opinion and ruling on it bypassing the constitution. Danica and Trent This case-law system is a constitutional nightmare because it continuously modifies Constitutional intent. For lawyers, however, it creates endless business opportunities. That's because case law is technically complicated and requires a lawyer's expertise to guide and move you through the system. The judicial system may begin with enacted laws, but the variations that result from a judge's application of case law all too often change the ultimate meaning. By John F. Molloy http://www.jail4judges.org /JNJ_Library/2005/2005-11-29A.html Trent An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. -Mahatma Gandhi The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." Aristotle It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Trent Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.] - Horace (Quintus Steven with his dog Rocky Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. - Cervantes Let us be merciful as well as just. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One can not be just if one is not humane. [Lat., On ne peut etre juste si on n'est pas humain.] - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (XXVIII) In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce That's hysterical http://www.inthesetimes.com /main/article/2797/ THIS IS FUN "If the motto ‘and justice for all’ becomes ‘and justice for those who can afford it’, we threaten the very underpinnings of our social contract." - Chief Justice Ronald George California Supreme Court, Annual "State of Judiciary" Speech, 2001 Handy Recovery™ is an easy-to-use data recovery software designed to restore files accidentally deleted from hard disks and memory cards.	Was it just another selective enforcement of the law as well as cruel and unusual punishment contrary to the Constitution? Given the facts that Steven was 27, his wife 20 and their son Trent 4 old and that they are a family unit. How can the judge pass a sentence on Steven of 16 years for consensual relations with now his wife. Here are a few exemplary cases tried around same time and one by the same judge. Larry Schack. Port St. Lucie, Fl Michael A. Brown charged with lewd and lascivious battery with 13 year old girl plus Grand Theft, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia ...got Time served in county jail (14 months) plus 4 year probation. West Palm Beach Brian J. Taylor (Teacher) Had 2 year sexual relationship with 16 year old student. Case was dropped. Martin County, Fl Judge Larry Schack sentence Ari Ravon Stanberry for lewd and lascivious battery plus 3 prior felony to 2 years Sex Offender Community Control and 4 year probation. For the same thing Judge Larry Shack gave Steven a 16 year sentence. After reading the full story below, can someone explain how that can happen, explain to his 4 year old son, Trent. This case is a travesty of justice. We are not endorsing Stevens' conduct. What he did was illegal, and he deserved to be punished for it. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the punishment has to be proportionate to what any other person, similarly situated, would receive. So was it just another selective enforcement of the law as well as cruel and unusual punishment contrary to the Constitution's 8th amendment? And then the judge has the audacity to say this to Steven: " I certainly hope this was worth it for you because it has destroyed your life, this young lady's life and caused permanent damage to your son." What he meant by that we don't know. What we do know is that he most certainly destroy Steven's life, his marriage, his child's relationship with him. How has justice been served in this situation when everything around this case lies in tatters, lives ruined and torn apart. Prior to the legal system entering this picture, Steven, young lady and Trent stood a good chance of making it as a couple and a family. Giving 16 years prison sentence to a man who had consensual relations with his wife when she was almost 16 year old, but not hearing witnesses or acknowledging what they have said about circumstances that surround this incident it is preposterous. That is when State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. The Judge must have been sleeping on the bench if he didn't hear what Steven has done for Tiffany and his son from early pregnancy. She was " victimized " long before Steven arrived in her life and not as portrayed by Judge Larry Schack. Steven in fact was a positive influence in her life. He encouraged her to get her life back on track and when she was with him she was on her way to a normal life. When Trent was born no one cared except one man who realized that mistakes had been made and he accepted the responsibility of this from early pregnancy. He took Tiff to the doctor for checkups, he was at the hospital for the birth, he cut the umbilical cord. He put his name on the birth certificate without any proof at the time that he was the father. He was helping and care for the boy. This all came crashing down once the state got into it. This man went through hell the past 4 years and has already served 3 1/2 years in jail. After all, he is not just a number in the penal system, he is a husband, a father of a 4 year old, a brother and son to someone. He will be the first to admit that he made a mistake and he did everything in his power to try and make things right afterwards. We realize that the penal system was setup to be punitive in nature and not remedial. But 16 years sentence is extremely excessive for the nature of the offense committed. The disparity of treatment in these cases as compared to the sixteen year sentence that Steven received is blatant and very obvious. How can this be explained with any cohesiveness and reason? How can some people "walk" and some serve a good part of their lives behind bars? Why is the judicial system not accountable for such disparity of sentencing and why isn't there more transparency in the system? The individual state's need to revise their statutory rape laws to reflect what is going on in the twenty-first century and the sexual behavior of teen's and young people today. Until that time comes, sex education classes should be more all-inclusive in explaining the legal consequences of premarital sex by teenagers not just the caveat to "use condoms". There are many more legal consequences to teenage sex than just STD's and unwanted pregnancies. Aside from the above consequences, spending many years in prison is one very big failure of the system. IT SERVES NO PURPOSE. Few teenagers and their parents are aware that serious jail time is a very real possibility in underage sex. Rather than changing the law in the failed system, the system is further punishing the offender. In addition to jail time, as things presently stand, the offender, once released is put on a Sex Offender Registry and in a very real sense, this "sentence" lasts a lifetime and its repercussions follow the individual for all of his life. True pedophiles need to be put on such a list, not young people who are behaving in the norm for their age bracket by today's way of life. 16-year sentence for consensual sex. ONLY IN THE USA, THE KINGS OF HYPOCRISY The State of Florida is a creator of social problems, Tiffany for example, having her own problems, she can't take care of their child by herself she needs help from her parents who are presently taking care of their son. And at the end Steven? He worked hard full time, attend college at night and was attempting to start up his own business was taken away from all this. Hi will be 41 years old when he'll get out of prison. No education, no work experience. Label of pedophile on his forehead that will have to carry for life. What will happen to him? Probably another social problem because it is a good chance that he will not be able to get a job. His parents probably not going to be around anymore to guide him or help him. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not increases in crime rates, explain most of the six-fold increase in the national prison population. And “one size fits all" mandatory minimum sentences that allow little or no consideration for individual characteristics as in case above. Is that how we solving a problems. Is that right thing to do? All the wrong choices. How can we be the leader to the world if we are becoming a laughing stock of the world. We need to take a good look at the our own back yard our own living room our kids room. They are watching nip/tuck for breakfast, lunch and diner. The most sexual TV series I have ever watch on TV. And then we are sending them to 16 years in prison for having consensual sex? State Department also have the nerve to send out complaints every year to 180 nations abut human rights violation? Mr. President, House of Representatives, Senators, the People of The United States, take a good look in to our prisons and you will never again complain about human right violations. It is a fact that 70-80% of US prisoners within one year are back in prison. In Europe for example the number is reversed, 80% of them get job and become normal law abiding citizens. Why is that? And why is crime rate in Europe 3 times les per capita. Crime within the prisons is almost non existing. They give prisoners some dignity, something to look forward when they get out. Prisoners in Europe work in every prison, making furniture, sheet metal work, farming, teaching etc. They feel productive, they are productive. They learn new skills, develop working habit. What comes out of US prisons? Vast majority come out as poorly educated criminals, street fighters, drug traffickers and even murderers and they are back in prison within 6 to 8 months. Spending many years in prison is one very big failure of the system. It serves no purpose. The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced. *Remember Genarlow Wilson case?* **Wilson released after two years behind bars for teen sex conviction. The judge courageously wrote:** If this court or any court cannot recognize the injustice of what has occurred here, then our court system has lost sight of the goal our judicial system has always strived to accomplish ... justice being served in a fair and equal manner. Steven’s punishment was excessive to, and should be reduced just like Vilson's, just like the prison sentence for former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, which was commuted by President Bush. Unfortunately, we cannot get the attention of civil rights activists as Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or Attorney like B.J. Bernstein, and it appears that without high-profile help, situations like this remain unknown and out of the public eye and without media attention people stay in prisons. As Al Sharpton said in Genarlow Willsons case. “If he had a different complexion and a different connection, we wouldn’t be here,” Neither would Steven. And he doesn't have Al Sharpton on his side. All he has, is this website and you! Pleas advertise with us and help. The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. When 15-16 year old commit a murder he or she are charged and prosecuted as an adult. But when 15-16 year old decided to have a consensual sex then she is only a child. American hypocrisy!!! Jan. 10. 2009 Editors note. All of the above I wrote about 3 years ago is now coming to light. NEW YORK States budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision. Collectively, the pending and proposed initiatives could add up to one of biggest shifts ever in corrections policy, putting into place cost-saving reforms that have struggled to win political support in the tough-on-crime climate of recent decades. "Prior to this fiscal crisis, legislators could tinker around the edges — but we're now well past the tinkering stage," said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, which advocates alternatives to incarceration. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28592088/ *Trimming fast-rising costs* Policy-makers in Michigan, one of four states that spend more money on prisons than higher education, are awaiting a report later this month from the Council of State Governments' Justice Center on ways to trim fast-rising corrections costs, likely including sentencing and parole modifications. *In Florida,* where prisons are so crowded that the state has acquired tents for possible use to house inmates, officials say 19 new prisons may be needed over the next five years. As an alternative, Corrections Secretary Walter McNeil told lawmakers they should re-evaluate the state's hard-line sentencing policies and look at ways to help released inmates avoid returning to prison. "These laws have neither curbed drug use nor enhanced public safety," said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Instead, they have ruined thousands of lives and annually wasted millions of tax dollars in prison costs." Probation & Parole supervisions are waste of time, waste of taxpayer's money as they DO NOT function as intended and do not protect the community in anyway. States where inmates who are on probation have to pay $30 to $60 per week in probation fees, makes it even more difficult for them to stay clean as the jobs they get as ex- inmates pay minimum wages and the state takes almost half of their salary. In most cases they can't leave the area or state to look for a better job, so 80 % of them are back in prison within 8 months average. In many countries around the world inmates on probation or who are out on parole are not monitored at all. In fact they have a simple process; if the parolees commit a crime or any offense during that period, they will be charged with the new crime plus violation of probation or parole and will serve time for both. This method does not cost anything and saves millions of taxpayers’ money. Ex-inmates find jobs much easier than their counterparts in the US because only the police and justice system know about their criminal record, unlike in the US where you can easily find a person's criminal record by just pulling their credit history. Best of all, the foreign system works; eighty percent of ex-offenders become good, law-abiding citizens. So wake up America; it is time to change our judicial system and reintegrate the nonviolent, ex-offenders back into society by giving them equal opportunities to succeed like other citizens--not the second class citizenship that they currently have. Please help Steven fight this injustice. WhatPriceJustice P.O. Box 168 Vestal, NY 13851-0168 Steven and his Austrian friend Mgk write and record this song before he returned to the US and get himself arrested. To her the song click refresh.	The reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims itself the 'land of freedom,' has the most dishonest, dangerous and crooked legal system of any developed nation. The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own ....it could happen in your life It could be your son, daughter, brother, sister or your wife. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster ... when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -Friedrich Nietzche Trent There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. - Ramsey Clark Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess Steven with his son Trent There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has." - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Griffin v. Illinois, 373 U.S.12,(1964), Steven & Tiffany Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. ~David Dudley Field Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. ~Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match! Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren Trent A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state. - Thomas Wilson A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - Henry Louis Mencken Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. - Cervantes Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero Steven & Trent 2003 He who is only just is cruel. - Lord Byron (George Gordon If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. --Bishop Desmond Tutu Changes in sentencing law and policy, not increases in crime rates, explain most of the six-fold increase in the national prison population. And “one size fits all" mandatory minimum sentences that allow little or no consideration for individual characteristics as in case above. People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made. ~Otto Bismark You Are visitor Your Ad maybe posted here. Recover Disc is an easy-to-use program that helps you extract data from scratched, damaged, defective or incorrectly burned CD and DVD discs.

Stevens case number is 04-19-CFA. Click on this link to the correction facility where he is being held.