Man jailed 13 years after sentence...

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10. According to this eariier report

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In 1999, Cornealious “Mike” Anderson was convicted of armed robbery after taking money from a Burger King manager who was making a bank deposit. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail...posted bond and went home during the appeals process...

"He then waited and waited and waited for the Missouri Department of Corrections to give him a date to surrender and begin his serving his sentence,’’ Anderson’s attorney, Patrick Michael Megaro, told TODAY. “That day never came." The state mistakenly believed Anderson was already in prison serving his sentence, when in fact he was living life on the outside.

"He got married, had children, opened a successful business, coached youth football, (and) joined a church group,’’ Magaro said...“Did everything that you would expect a normal person to do because in his mind, he believed that maybe the courts had changed their mind." link

And it didn't occur to either Anderson his lawyers to find out what what going on? That can't go unpunished, but Anderson's good behavior (including not fleeing) shouldn't go uncredited, either (though I doubt that he told his then-fiance that he might be carted off to jail at any minute).

In terms of a equitable solution, and assuming that Missourians must serve one-third of their sentence to qualify for parole, I suggest he serve one third of the sentence -- 52 months.


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