American society has long placed a special value on rising early for a hard day's work. But this is apparently not always the case in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, where a sanitation worker was sentenced to 30 days in jail for picking up the town's garbage before 7:00 AM and thus violating a local ordinance.
Last month, Kevin McGill thought he was simply going into court to pay a fine for his early-morning trash collecting. But he was soon face to face with a prosecutor and he quickly took a plea deal to prevent his case from going to trial. Before he knew it, a Sandy Springs judge had given McGill an entire month behind bars.
No other charge factored into the sentence—just the violation of a rule aimed at keeping garbage trucks from disturbing the morning peace
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Bill Riley, the city prosecutor, emphasizes that McGill took a plea deal and both acknowledged his guilt and understood the harshness of the potential sentence.
the fool prosecutor
"This was a negotiated plea," he said. "It was ultimately the judge's decision as to whether that was an appropriate sentence... I just made a recommendation, he didn't have to take it."
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