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Google* Vickie Gail Allen, 37, 2506 St. John Apartments, pleaded guilty to theft of property in excess of $500 and failure to appear. She was accused of stealing a laptop computer and attempting to pawn it on June 29, 2007.
On the theft charge, she was sentenced to two years in prison. Her sentence will be suspended after six months and she'll be placed on probation for the remainder.
On the failure to appear charge, she was sentenced to two years of prison, suspended to two years on probation. The sentences are to be served consecutively.
* John Thomas Brandon, 39, 84 Moore Road in Jackson, pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm where alcoholic beverages are sold and felony failure to appear.
On the firearm charge, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to forfeit the weapon.
On the failure to appear charge, he was sentenced to a year in prison, suspended to 60 days. He is to be placed on supervised probation for 10 months.
* Michael Dewayne Brown, 26, 318 St. George, was sentenced on three counts of selling less than half a gram of cocaine. He was found guilty on the charges March 18. He was fined $2,000 and sentenced to eight years in prison on each charge. The sentences were to be served concurrently and two of the fines were suspended.
* Johnathan Cavness, 24, who address is listed both as 1637 Harris St. and 1637 Maxey Drive, pleaded guilty to felony failure to appear. He was sentenced to a year in prison and must serve that time consecutive to three prior sentences.
* Clarence Monroe Hays, 59, 3988 Lenox Nauvoo Road, was not prosecuted on a charge of violating the Motor Vehicle Habitual Offender Act.
* Eddie Wayne Shelton, 37, of Newbern, pleaded guilty to two counts of selling more than half a gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for each count, but the sentence was suspended immediately and Shelton was placed on probation for the same time period. The sentences are to be served concurrently with each other and with prior sentences. He also was fined $2,000 for each count, with the fines being suspended. He was ordered to pay a total of $385 restitution to the West Tennessee Drug Task Force.
* William Allen Ferebee, 1722 Countryman, was not prosecuted on charges of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery. He had been accused of inappropriately touching one woman's clothing and touching the breasts of a girl who was less than 13.
* Raymond Thomas, 38, of Dyersburg, pleaded guilty to facilitation of selling more than half a gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail followed by two years and nine months in a community corrections program.
* Timothy Watson, 34, 1821 Whitney Young, pleaded guilty to selling more than half a gram of cocaine. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison as a multiple offender who must serve at least 35 percent of the sentence before being considered for parole. The sentence is to be served concurrently with prior sentences. He also was fined $2,000.
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"...pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm where alcoholic beverages (that's beer and/or whiskey for people who can take the facts straight up) are sold..." - Okay folks, first of all I wouldn't enter most of the places in our part of the country where alcohol is sold without a gun, a knife, a taser, or some other form of self protection on my person. Second, we wouldn't have the problem of "liquor by the drink" here if fourteen more people had voted against it the last time it came up for a referendum. Third, I'm one of those people who insist that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means owning and carrying a firearm is an inalienable right that "shall not be infringed". The way I see it, let me stick this in your eye all you left wing commies, is that John Brandon's Constitutional guarantee to "keep and bear arms" was denied him in a court of law, the duty of which is to uphold the Constitution. It's time people started acting like we have a Constitution and prosecuting those who don't want one.
It really doesn`t matter. Our rights have been taken away from us anyway. If not by the judges, then the presidents` men. The constitution doesn`t mean a darn thing to these people. If I could afford it, I would move to Holland or somewhere. You might say "if I don`t like it, then move". Like I said, if I could afford it. I probably could if all the jobs did not go overseas.
No, you're absolutely right, nicksgrandad. A lot of us would leave this politically rotten place if there was somewhere better to go. My ancestors left Ireland and England for the same reason: Can't shoot the deer. They belong to the king. Can't catch the fish. They belong to the king. Can't chop the tree. It belongs to the king. Can't have you believing in god just any old way. The king says so. Sound familiar? Native Americans, I've been led to believe by movies romantacizing about the noble red man, would stake themselves to a spot where they would fight to the death. I think it's time to drive that stake into the ground and declare, "I've had enought! No more! Today is a good day to die." But, of course, the people responsible for all the economic chaos and political betrayal won't come for you. No, they'll send the tax man and the sheriff. That's the reason Mr. Obama could say, "It won't do them [us] any good to cling to our Bibles and our guns." He has "the system" to do his dirty work...just like the king did.
Oh, and by the way, the headline should read "Incomplete Sentences Given in Circuit Court" to be grammatically correct.