Brawl erupts at sentencing of mom who gave gun to son

[n2doc]

BY JOE SWICKARD
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A murderer and her supporters battled in a Detroit courtroom this morning as she was ordered to serve more than 22 years in prison for giving her teenage son a gun that he used to kill another teen at a recreation center.

Tarranisha Davis “basically just went ballistic,” said Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Ryan who presided over her trial with her son and co-defendant Tremain.

The woman “was punching yelling and screaming” as court security officers and Detroit policemen who were in the courtroom tried to control her, Ryan said.

“Then these other people jumped over the railing and start fighting, too,” Ryan said. “It spilled into the hallway.”

Other security officers rushed to the fifth floor of the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice.

The brawl ended with four people in custody – facing potential contempt and assault charges – and with a Wayne County Sheriff’s lieutenant and a deputy slightly injured.

http://freep.com/article/20100311/NEWS01/100311064/

[TheWraith]

1. Sounds to me like we're all better off with her not getting parole. nt

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2. Why such a light sentence?

:shrug:

[depakid]

3. Only in America would 22 years be thought of as a "light sentence"

[pipoman]

6. For involvement in a MURDER? What are you talking about?

[depakid]

9. Looks like an appropriate sentence for an accomplice to 2nd degree murder

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7. What would you have her serve...

community service?

[npk]

4. I agree

If she knew when she gave her son the gun that he was going to use it to shoot another teen, then she should be spending life in prison. She is a party of the conspiracy to commit murder, just as her son is guilty of the actual murder.

[ChicagoSuz219]

5. What happened to the kid? Is he in jail, too? n/t

[BuelahWitch]

8. He got 10 to 25 years n/t

[ChicagoSuz219]

11. Thanks. n/t

[mwrguy]

10. Now can we go after everyone who provides guns

to trigger-happy nuts in Amerika?

Everyone who sells guns at gun shows would be a good place to start.

[Chulanowa]

13. Nope, because those people don't really have guns!

See, there's "gun owners" - who are all completely moral, harmless, law-abiding, wonderful people.

And then there are the thugs and lowlifes and criminals who manage to kill people with bullets, but are never considered to be in possession of a gun; or if htey are, it's ALWAYS stolen from some unfortunate, pure-as-the-driven-snow (former) gun-owner.

Under no circumstances is it possible for the owner of a gun to behave in a criminal manner, because, just like the magical sword Excalibur, the supernatural properties of a pistol prevent its rightful owner from EVER even contemplating being harmful to another person!

Don't you read the gungeon?

[DrCory]

15. Interesting...

If no one can truly be trusted with a firearm as is the only logical interpretation of your post, what about the possession of other objects/devices with which people cause injury or death to others?

[Chulanowa]

16. Or I could just be mocking the idiotic claims of gun nuts

Gun mythology is hilarious

[DrCory]

17. How About Some Links? N/T

[DrCory]

14. Any person who buys a firearm...

At a gun show is a trigger-happy nut?

[petronius]

12. Just a brawl? Nobody had a gun?

Pathetic...

:)