1 million dollar bond set for man in theft of $21.64

[theHandpuppet]

While war criminals Bush and Cheney walk free....

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/NEWS01/803290387
Judge's $1M bail for theft lambasted
BY KIMBALL PERRY | [e-mail]

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters was so stunned by the $1 million bond set Thursday for a man accused of a $21 theft from 1990 that he wouldn't object to the man being freed.

"It's a bit silly. The judge must have been having a bad day," Deters said Friday of Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Richard Bernat.

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In that case, Weaver was accused of theft of $21.64 from a Loveland store, paying for those goods with rolls of dimes that employees later discovered were rolls of pennies with dimes on each end.

Bernat, who didn't return Friday calls, ordered the original bond imposed on the case - $1 million - and refused to lower it.....

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[blueknight]

1. asshole

rethug judge, while this dangerous guy is locked up, you can go to vine street in cincy and get killed

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. Self-delete.