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Slain Girl's Kin Question Justice System
By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer
SARASOTA, Fla. - For the better part of a decade, the man suspected of killing an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was caught on videotape had been under the supervision of Florida's criminal justice system. But despite his many brushes with the law, Joseph P. Smith never spent long behind bars.
Now, Carlie Brucia's grieving family is demanding to know why Smith a drug addict who admitted attacking one woman and was accused of trying to kidnap another was a free man.
The longest Smith has ever spent in prison is less than 14 months. He was acquitted of the most serious crime on his rap sheet, an attempted kidnapping, after telling jurors he meant the woman no harm.
..................I think the judge should have granted this guy bail, in the amount of $1.oo and offered to pay it himself. Then he should have made it known to the public exactly what time and what exit door this piece of human slime would be released so they could be waiting for him with a short rope and a tall tree limb!!!!
By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer
SARASOTA, Fla. - For the better part of a decade, the man suspected of killing an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was caught on videotape had been under the supervision of Florida's criminal justice system. But despite his many brushes with the law, Joseph P. Smith never spent long behind bars.
Now, Carlie Brucia's grieving family is demanding to know why Smith a drug addict who admitted attacking one woman and was accused of trying to kidnap another was a free man.
The longest Smith has ever spent in prison is less than 14 months. He was acquitted of the most serious crime on his rap sheet, an attempted kidnapping, after telling jurors he meant the woman no harm.
..................I think the judge should have granted this guy bail, in the amount of $1.oo and offered to pay it himself. Then he should have made it known to the public exactly what time and what exit door this piece of human slime would be released so they could be waiting for him with a short rope and a tall tree limb!!!!
