Grits for Breakfast 11/16/2019
https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-10000-year-sentence-austin-pd-racism.htmlEugene Spencer, Jr. has the longest recorded sentence of any TDCJ inmate: at least;
1,000 years, and;
press reports at the time of his sentencing;said the real number is 10,000 years. I did a brief;
Twitter thread on his case. A black man convicted of killing a San Antonio cop during a gas-station robbery, the decisive testimony came from an accomplice and it was later proven a jailhouse informant lied on him at trial (courts agreed the guy lied but called it "harmless error"). Today, Mr. Spencer is 76, listed as 5'5" tall, 119 lbs, having spent 47 years of his life behind bars. As;
attorney Scott Medlock pointed out, he will first become eligible for parole in the 25th century,;
after;the events in;
Star Trek: The Next Generation.;Two questions arise: 1) as mentioned in the final tweet in the string, can anyone explain how it's possible under Texas' sentencing structure to give someone a 10,000 year sentence? And 2) does anyone think Texans would be less safe at this point if the septuagenarian was released?